Home / Authors / Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson Quotes

28th U.S. President

Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, known for his foreign policy during World War I and his efforts at the Paris Peace Conference. He advocated for the New Freedom policy and had a deep academic background in history, politics, and economics.

Filter quotes by topic

All Men World Ifs Nations Government America People Knows Political Presidential War Doe Liberty Spirit May States Thinking Country Fighting Heart

Famous Woodrow Wilson Quotes

“When I think of the flag.... I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice, and stripes of blood to vindicate those rights, and then, in the corner, a prediction of the blue serene into which every nation may swim which stands for these great things.”

Thinking May Nations Justice Liberty Rights Written Blood Blue Corners Great Things Swim Flags Predictions Serene Stripes Liberty And Justice Flag Day

Book:The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state; educational literary and political papers (1875-1913)

Source: The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state; educational literary and political papers (1875-1913)

“There is one thing that the American people always rise to and extend their hand to and that is the truth of justice, and of liberty, and of peace. We have accepted that truth and we are going to led by itand through us the world, out into pastures of quietness and peace such as the world never dreamed of before.”

People World Hands Truth Peace Justice Liberty One Thing Accepted Quietness Pastures

Book:A Day of Dedication

Source: A Day of Dedication

“Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves.”

World Science Liberty Disease Familiar Servant Superstitious

Book:The papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson

“There will be no greater burden on our generation than to organize the forces of liberty in our time in order to make our quest ofa new freedom for America.”

America Order Force Freedom Liberty Greater Generations Burden Our Time Quests Organize Our Generation

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“An evident principleis the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.”

Strong Term Justice Liberty Principles Equal Weak Safety Equality Evident Nationality

Book:Woodrow Wilson's Principles of Democracy: Being President Alderman's Memorial Address Delivered Before a Joint Session of American Congress, and President Woodrow Wilson's Addresses Delivered During the Period of the Great World War

Source: Woodrow Wilson's Principles of Democracy: Being President Alderman's Memorial Address Delivered Before a Joint Session of American Congress, and President Woodrow Wilson's Addresses Delivered During the Period of the Great World War

“I believe in human liberty as I believe in the wine of life. There is no salvation for men in the pitiful condescension of industrial masters. Guardians have no place in a land of freemen.”

Men Believe Humans I Believe Liberty Land Masters Salvation Wine I Believe In Guardian Pitiful Freeman Condescension

Book:Works: ¬The new freedom of call for the emancipation of the generous energies of a people

Source: Works: ¬The new freedom of call for the emancipation of the generous energies of a people

“But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts--for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.”