Woodrow Wilson Quotes

Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.

It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.

Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.

The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.

The world must be made safe for democracy.

There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.

There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.

Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.