Woodrow Wilson Quotes

No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.

If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.

Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.

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

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.

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

The object of love is to serve, not to win.

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