Woodrow Wilson

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

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

No task rightly done is truly private. It is part of the world's work.

It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts - for democracy.

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.

I'm a vague conjunctured personality more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

1 have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty and business liberty and every other kind of liberty in the phrase that is common in the sporting world "A free field and no favor."

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest no domination. We seek no indemnities for ourselves no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely give. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and freedom of nations can make them.

When you come into the presence of a leader of men you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him.

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

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

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

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.

A friend of mine says that every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells and when I give a man an office I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

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