Woodrow Wilson

The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

It is not the whip that makes men, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

We are citizens of the world; and the tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

I think that in public affairs stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight.

The history of liberty is a history of limitations of government power, not the increase of it

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

Never murder a man who is committing suicide.

You must act in your friend's interest whether it pleases him or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.

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 great 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.

Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.

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.

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