Woodrow Wilson Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• The world must be made safe for democracy.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Presidential, Democracy, World

  Address to Joint Session of Congress asking for declaration of war, 2 Apr. 1917 See ThomasWolfe 1

• 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.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Government, Hands, People

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.117, Lexington Books

• Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Business, Democracy, Corporations

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1978). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

• The beauty of a democracy is that you never can tell when a youngster is born what he is going to do with himself, and that no matter how humbly he is born, no matter where he is born, no matter what circumstances hamper him at the outset, he has got a chance to master the minds and lead the imaginations of the whole country.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Imagination, Mind

  Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1966). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

• The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Selfish, Sacrifice, Political

  Speech to Congress, 2 April 1917, in 'Selected Addresses' (1918) p. 195

• An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy

  Woodrow Wilson

  Democracy, Empires, Invisible

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.117, Lexington Books

• I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Military, Believe, Democracy

  Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence”, Best Books

• That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Kings, Cynical, Democracy

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1976). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

• The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Understanding, Democracy

  Woodrow Wilson (2016). “The New Freedom: [Illustrated & Biography Added]”, p.66, eKitap Projesi

• The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Democracy

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.239, tredition

• ...to make the world safe for democracy.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Strong Women, Tyrants, Differences

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1985). “Papers: Edited by Arthur S. Link and Others”

• Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Government, Democracy, Principles

  Woodrow Wilson, Howard Seavoy Leach (1970). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: Authorized Ed”

• Today, supremely, it behooves us to remember that a nation shall be saved by the power that sleeps in its own bosom; or by none; shall be renewed in hope, in confidence, in strength by waters welling up from its own sweet, perennial springs. Not from above; not by patronage of its aristocrats. The flower does not bear the root, but the root the flower.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Sweet, Freedom, Spring

• But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts--for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Heart, Fighting, Rights

  War Message, delivered 2 April 1917

• In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. Limits of wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principle there are, upon strict analysis, none.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Destiny, Men, Rights

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1968). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

• My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Two, Democracy, Together

• The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Patriotic, Political

  Speech to Congress, 2 Apr. 1917, in Selected Addresses (1918) p. 195

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