Woodrow Wilson

The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.

There is such a thing as man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation.

No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

It is imperative that we should not only master them, but also act upon them, and act very definitely.

A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.

The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us...

"Genius is divine perseverance." Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.

We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.

If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.

All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.

Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, and to set up among the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

Only peace between equals can last.

War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.