Woodrow Wilson

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

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

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

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative', one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary', one who won't go at all.

In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

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