Woodrow Wilson People Quotations

Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people

I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will.

A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have

No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.

People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.

Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.

The allied nations with the fullest concurrence of our government and people are agreed that in Palestine shall be laid the foundations of a Jewish Commonwealth.

The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.

If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.

Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.

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

The westward march has stopped, upon the final plains of the Pacific; and now the plot thickenswith the change, the pause, the settlement, our people draw into closer groups, stand face to face, to know each other and be known.

It has become a people's war, and peoples of all sorts and races, of every degree of power and variety of fortune, are involved inits sweeping processes of change and settlement.

When the representatives of "Big Business" think of the people, they do not include themselves.

No man ever saw the people of whom he forms a part. No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States. Its personnel extends through all the nations, and across the seas, and into every corner of the world in the persons of the representatives of the United States in foreign capitals and in foreign centres of commerce.

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.

The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history...