Woodrow Wilson

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. Anything else holds you back.

He who learns and runs away lives to learn another day.

I am, of course, a Republican, but I am a progressive Republican.

The supreme test of every political statesman is to show that he can govern without force.

Autocracy is a government by one man; democracy is a government by all men.

Every man sent out from Princeton should bear in his very heart the strong and beating pulse of the nation.

The fact is that there is a serious danger of this country becoming a plutocracy.

We grow by letting the good within us have full play.

The spirit of the Nation is one of the most potent elements of power.

No man can be a good citizen unless he is a good neighbor.

The highest and best result of statesmanship is the realization of justice.

Education is the only way to give ourselves the chance of being free.

True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

In the end, the only real security lies in a knowledge of one's self and one's capacity to withstand any reasonable assault.

The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose.

America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of Holy Scripture.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich one that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

The life of man is of no greater duration than the breath of his nostrils.

It is a fearful thing to lead a nation.