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. - (Wilson, Woodrow T. - America)

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. - (Wilson, Woodrow T. - America)

The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself. - (Wilson, Woodrow T. - America)

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions. - (Wilson, Woodrow T. - Business)

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. - (Wilson, Woodrow T. - Caution)

If you want to make enemies, try to change something. - (Wilson, Woodrow T. - Change)

If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig. - (Wilson, Woodrow T. - Character)

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty. - (Wilson, Woodrow T. - Character)

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you. - (Wilson, Woodrow T. - Critics and Criticism)

I believe in democracy, because it releases the energies of every human being. - (Wilson, Woodrow T. - Democracy)

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles. - (Wilson, Woodrow T. - Democracy)

America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it. - (Wilson, Woodrow T. - Democracy)

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic. - (Wilson, Woodrow T. - Democracy)

The world must be made safe for democracy. - (Wilson, Woodrow T. - Democracy)

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. - (Wilson, Woodrow T. - Dreams)