Woodrow Wilson

The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.

Woodrow Wilson

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Woodrow Wilson

There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.

Woodrow Wilson

There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.

Woodrow Wilson

There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are seeking to be entrusted with its guidance should be left at home.

Woodrow Wilson

There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.

Woodrow Wilson

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Woodrow Wilson

There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.

Woodrow Wilson

To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.

Woodrow Wilson