Woodrow Wilson

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.

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

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

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.

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.