Political Quotes

Woodrow Wilson

The Public Record

Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, serving from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, he was born in Virginia and raised in Georgia before moving to New Jersey, where he became a prominent political figure. Wilson was a key leader of the Progressive Movement, advocating for reforms such as antitrust legislation and the establishment of the Federal Reserve System. His presidency is also noted for significant events such as the United States' involvement in World War I and his efforts to promote the League of Nations, an international organization aimed at preventing future conflicts.

Quotes by year · 191419211,355 total · peak 1919 (467)
1914: 93 quotes1915: 10 quotes1916: 264 quotes1917: 223 quotes1918: 137 quotes1919: 467 quotes1920: 132 quotes1921: 29 quotes
Sep 27, 1916

In the absence of a currency certificate no allowance will be made for depreciated currency.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 27, 1916

Principal Consular Officers shall keep at their offices a Register of all American citizens residing in their several districts.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 27, 1916

The Secretary of State is authorized to make regulations concerning registration additional to these rules and not inconsistent with them.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 27, 1916

The general principles which govern applications for passports also govern applications for registration.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 27, 1916

No fee shall be required for registration nor for any service connected therewith, except for the issuance of a certificate of registration.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 27, 1916

Consuls may issue, upon forms prescribed by the Department, certificates of registration good for one year, for use with the authorities of the place where the persons registered are residing.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 24, 1916

I have a supreme contempt for partisan action; that I believe that it is necessary for men to concert measures together in organized cooperation by party.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 24, 1916

Not until the recent legislation of Congress known as the Federal reserve act were the Federal banks of this country given the proper equipment.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 24, 1916

Nothing so seriously interrupts or interferes with the sober and sincere consideration of public questions as a political campaign.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 24, 1916

The competitions of business either lay the foundations of respect and mutual confidence or the foundations of suspicion and mutual hostility.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 24, 1916

The agricultural acreage of this country ought to produce twice what it is now producing.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 24, 1916

An opinion ought always to have a profound respect for a fact.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 24, 1916

My dream is that she will take her place in that great field in a new spirit which the world has never seen before.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 24, 1916

We have swung out, my fellow citizens, into a new business era in America.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 15, 1916

All matters pertaining to the Government of the Philippine Islands, except as otherwise provided by law, are placed in the jurisdiction of that department.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 15, 1916

He (the Governor General of the Philippine Islands) shall annually and at such other times as he may be required make such official report of the transactions of the government of the Philippine Islands to an executive department of the…

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 15, 1916

All official reports which the Governor General of the Philippine Islands may be required to make of the transactions of the Government of the Philippine Islands will be made to the War Department.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 7, 1916

There was a time when nobody but a lawyer could know enough to run the Government of the United States.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 7, 1916

It is going to prevail, and that is a very superficial and ignorant view of it which attributes it to mere social unrest.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 7, 1916

We feel the tide; we rejoice in the strength of it; and we shall not quarrel in the long run as to the method of it.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 7, 1916

The astonishing thing about the movement which you represent is, not that it has grown so slowly, but that it has grown so rapidly.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 7, 1916

I have come to suggest, among other things, that when the forces of nature are steadily working and the tide is rising to meet the moon, you need not be afraid that it will not come to its flood.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 3, 1916

Nature pays no tribute to aristocracy, subscribes to no creed of caste, renders fealty to no monarch or master of any name or kind.

presidency.ucsb.edu

Politicians like Woodrow Wilson