Woodrow Wilson Quotes

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.

The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.

“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.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.

What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.

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

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know