Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

Quote by Woodrow Wilson

Topics: Woodrow Wilson Quotes

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

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

If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character...

If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character...

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is...

Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is...

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the...

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the...

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

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

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

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill...

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill...

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not...

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not...

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give...

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give...

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend...

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend...

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the...

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the...

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am...

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am...

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship....

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship....

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it....

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it....

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in...

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in...

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.