Woodrow Wilson Patriotic Quotations

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

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.

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 would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism.

The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand, and to know that in performing it we are serving our country.

The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.