Woodrow Wilson Quotes Page 2

“There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.”

“There is hardly a part of the United States where men are not aware that secret private purposes and interests have been running the government.”

“There is nothing that succeeds in life like boldness, provided you believe you are on the right side.”

“War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.”

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

“We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.”

“We can have no sympathy with those who seek the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambitions.”

“We forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than in running before the crowd; we forget that in the resistance of the minority some of the biggest things in our own history have been accomplished, and the man who looks on the Stars and Stripes and doesn't hold a right to say nay to his neighbor, even if the neighbor is of the larger party, has forgotten the history of his country.”

“We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You know how impossible it is, in short, to have a free nation if it is a military nation and under military orders.”

“We wish companionship and renewal of spirit, enrichment of thought and the full adventure of the mind; and we desire fair company, and a larger world in which to find them.”

“You devour a book meant to be read, not because you would fill yourself or have an anxious care to be nourished, but because it contains such stuff as it makes the mind hungry to look upon. Neither do you read it to kill time, but to lengthen time, rather, adding to its natural usury by living the more abundantly while it lasts, joining another’s life and thought to your own.”