The quotations of

Woodrow Wilson

28th President of the United States

1856–1924

30 quotes, most often on War & Peace, America and Liberty. Part of the U.S. Presidents collection.

RADICAL⁠—one who goes too far.
CONSERVATIVE⁠—one who does not go far enough.
REACTIONARY⁠—one who does not go at all.
Speech to Kansas Society of New York (23 January 1911) — Wilson’s definition of different groups, PWW 22:389
- Politics
You deal in the raw material of opinion, and, if my convictions have any validity, opinion ultimately governs the world.
Address to the Associated Press (20 April 1915)
- Journalism
Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
From a letter to Mary A. Hulbert (21 September 1913)
- Leadership
- Power
I yield to no one precedence in love for the South. But because I love the South, I rejoice in the failure of the Confederacy.
Essay on John Bright, Virginia University Magazine, 19:354-370 (March 1880)
- Patriotism
Of course, like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised.
Letter to Winterton C. Curtis (29 August 1922)
- Science
A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated.
The New Freedom (1913), Section VIII: “Monopoly, Or Opportunity?”, p. 185
- Economics
- Money
American industry is not free, as once it was free; American enterprise is not free; the man with only a little capital is finding it harder to get into the field, more and more impossible to compete with the big fellow.
The New Freedom (1913), Section I: “The Old Order Changeth”, p. 15
- Business
- Economics
It must be a peace without victory…
Address to the Senate (22 January 1917)
- War & Peace
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
Speech on Military Preparedness, Pittsburgh (29 January 1916)
- America
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized common peace.
Address to the Senate (22 January 1917)
- Power
- War & Peace
Do you never stop to reflect just what it is that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty of self-governing peoples.
Speech on Military Preparedness, Pittsburgh (29 January 1916)
- America
- Democracy
The instrument of all reform in America is the ballot.
Woodrow Wilson: “7th Annual Message”, December 2, 1919
- America
- Voting
No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
Speech in New York City (20 April 1915)
- Politics
The supreme test of the nation has come. We must all speak, act, and serve together!
Proclamation to the American People (15 April 1917)
- Patriotism
The success of a party means little except when the Nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose.
First Inaugural Address (4 March 1913)
- Politics

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