Woodrow Wilson

Here is proof of it.

We will only keep the door open for them always, and a hearty welcome, —after we have recognized them.

The test of every American must always be, not where he is, but what he is.

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

No more significant memorial could have been presented to the nation than this.

How eloquent this little house within this shrine is of the vigor of democracy!

I am profoundly conscious of the responsibility which is mine.

I shall seek, as I have always sought, to purge my heart and purpose of every personal and of every misleading party motive.

There is no means of judging the future except by assessing the past.

Boasting is always an empty business, which pleases nobody but the boaster.

By virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, I do proclaim that the boundaries of the Tahoe National Forest in California are hereby changed.

To undertake to arbitrate the question of the adoption of an eight-hour day in the light of results merely estimated and predicted would be to undertake an enterprise of conjecture.

I felt warranted in assuring them that no obstacle of law would be suffered to stand in the way of their increasing their revenues to meet the expenses resulting from the change.

We need them now and we shall continue to need them.

I was seeking to compose the present in order to safeguard the future.

A situation had to be met whose elements and fixed conditions were indisputable.

I unhesitatingly offered the friendly services of the administration to the railway managers to see to it that justice was done the railroads in the outcome.

The whole presumption of modern experience would, it seemed to me, be in its favor, whether there was arbitration or not.

No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

It is easy to lose your temper, and hard to keep it.

The most that America can hope to do is to show, it may be, the finest example, not the only example, of the things that ought to benefit and promote the progress of the world.

No nation can live without vision, and no vision will exalt a nation except the vision of real liberty and real justice and purity of conduct.

I have come here for the simple purpose of expressing my very deep interest in what these conferences are intended to attain.

It is not fair to the great multitudes of hopeful men and women who press into this country from other countries that we should leave them without that friendly and intimate instruction which will enable them very soon after they come to…

The object of the law is that there, written upon these pages, the citizen should read the record of the experience of this state and nation.