Thomas Woodrow Wilson, (1856-1924), Twenty-eighth President of the USA Quotes

Nothing but what you volunteer has the essence of life, the springs of pleasure in it. These are the things you do because you want to do them, the things your spirit has chosen for its satisfaction. The more you are stimulated to such action the more clearly does it appear to you that you are a sovereign spirit, put into the world, not to wear a harness, but to work eagerly without it.

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 coined the term "progressive." I should say that a progressive is one who insists upon recognizing new facts as they present themselves -- one who adjusts legislation to these new facts.

Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot have, but perseverance all can have.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, leading by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Benevolence doesn't consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. Benevolence consists in fellow-feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.

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

We are not here to merely make a living. We are here to enrich the world, and we impoverish ourselves if we forget this errand.

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American.merica is the only idealistic nation in the world.

We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.