Woodrow Wilson
President who advocated for self-determination and internationalism post-WWI.
Quotes by Woodrow Wilson
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
We are to be an instrument in the hands of God to see that liberty is made secure for mankind.
No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
The right is more precious than peace.
The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
The object of government is the happiness of the people.
The only way to treat a problem is to face it, and the only way to face it is to understand it.
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world, and we impoverish ourselves if we forget the errand.
The great curse of mankind is the lack of imagination.
The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
The only thing that makes a man a man is his thinking.
The truth is that we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
The man who is bigger than his job is the man who is going to get ahead.
The great game of politics is to make the people believe that they are governing themselves.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government.