Woodrow Wilson

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance.

The American people are not a nation of cowards.

We are going to be more and more careful to see that the men who come to this country are men who will be an addition to the strength of the country and not a detriment.

The only thing that ever really went wrong was that I was a Democrat.

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.

No man is big enough to know all that is in the Constitution.

The most important thing for a nation is its character.

The great curse of the world is inequality.

We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.

The seed of revolution is repression.

The right is more precious than peace.

The only true freedom is freedom from error.

The object of peace is not merely to end war, but to prevent it.

I am a firm believer in the doctrine that the people are always right.

The greatest glory of a free-born people is to transmit that freedom to their children.

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the kindergarten.

The greatest strength of a nation is its people.

Government is not a machine, but a living thing.

The only power that can make a nation great is the power of thought.

The force of America is the force of moral principle.