Woodrow Wilson

“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.”

“At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.”

“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.”

“Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.”

“The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.”

“The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.”

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

“That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.”

“He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.”

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

“Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.”

“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.”

“I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.”

“You are not here merely to making 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.”

“Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.”

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

“מטרת האוניברסיטה עבור הלומדים לתואר ראשון היא לקבל השכלה כללית, שתציג לפניהם את הכוחות השונים הפועלים על החיים.”

“ניצחון שהוא שלום כפוי על המפסידים... יותיר טינה וזיכרון מר שבו תנאי השלום ישענו על חולות נודדים ולא יציבים. רק שלום בין שווים יכול להחזיק מעמד.”

“הזרע של מהפכה הוא הדיכוי.”

“הגדרה עצמית איננה סיסמה, אלא עקרון מחייב.”