Woodrow Wilson

The government, which was designed for the people, has got caught in the meshes of red tape.

America is not anything if it consists of a hundred or more suspicious, egotistical little nationalities.

The world must be made safe for democracy.

We are glad... to fight thus for the ultimate peace of the world and for the liberation of its peoples.

Peace without victory is the only peace that will last.

The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history. It represents the experiences made by men and women, the experiences of those who do and live under that flag.

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans, because I am by temperament a man of peace and not of war, and do not find it necessary to mistrust men because they belong to a party different from my own.

The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Self-criticism is the first step in self-government.

There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealist nation in the world.

The seed of revolution and war is the monopoly of power.

I believe in democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a false foundation.

Progressivism is the philosophy of action.

Big business is a menace to the body politic.

The Constitution was founded on the law of God and the laws of nature.

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

One cannot touch humanity at large, except as one touches individuals.

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.