Quote

Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.

Woodrow Wilson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Woodrow Wilson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1856
Born: December 28
Died: 1924
Died: February 23
28Th U.S. President
Academic
Jurist
Lawyer
Political Scientist
Politician
Statesperson
Teacher
University Teacher
The Manse
Thomas Woodrow Wilson
T. Woodrow Wilson
Thomas W. Wilson
President Wilson
T. W. Wilson
T. Wilson
Mankind
Hold
Interest
Peoples
Purpose
Narrow
Common
Steady
Freedom
Prefer
Free
Interests
Ends
Honor

More quotes by Woodrow Wilson

Image
Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of history's high noon when nations stand forth full grown and self-governed, the law of coherence and continuity in political development has suffered no serious breach.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
We are expected to put the utmost energy, of every power that we have, into the service of our fellow men, never sparing ourselves, not condescending to think of what is going to happen to ourselves, but ready, if need be, to go to the utter length of self-sacrifice.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
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.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
Once lead this people into war, and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
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.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
We didn't have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren't counted as human beings.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
The beauty of a democracy is that you never can tell when a youngster is born what he is going to do with himself, and that no matter how humbly he is born, no matter where he is born, no matter what circumstances hamper him at the outset, he has got a chance to master the minds and lead the imaginations of the whole country.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
The spirit of [William] Penn will not be stayed. You cannot set limits to such knightly adventurers. After their own day is gone their spirits stalk the world, carrying inspiration everywhere that they go and reminding men of the lineage, the fine lineage, of those who have sought justice and right.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily it is ideas. Ideas live men die.
Woodrow Wilson