Woodrow Wilson

We must see to it that a sufficient body of citizens is given the kind of training which will make them efficient now if called into the field in case of necessity.

Let no man dare to say, if he would speak the truth, that the question of preparation for national defense is a question of war or of peace.

Peace does not mean inaction.

We live in a world which we did not make, which we can not alter, which we can not think into a different condition from that which actually exists.

America will always seek to the last point at which her honor is involved to avoid the things which disturb the peace of the world.

All persons leaving the United States for foreign countries should be provided with passports of the Governments of which they are citizens.

Applications shall be made in the manner heretofore prescribed by the rules governing the granting and issuing of passports.

Now, therefore, in order to correct the error in locating said southern boundary line and in order to conform such line to the public system of surveys recently extended over these lands, it is hereby ordered that such southern boundary…

Pursuant to authority contained in the act of Congress approved June 25, 1910 (36 Stat., 847), as amended by act of August 24, 1912 (37 Stat., 497), and upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, it is hereby ordered that the…

Our people have come more and more to a sober realization of the part they have been called upon to play in a time when all the world is shaken by unparalleled distresses and disasters.

I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power and authority vested in me by the Act of Congress approved April 27, 1904 (33 Stat., 352), do hereby proclaim and direct that lands which were, at the…

You do not create the meaning of a national life by any literary exposition of it, but by the actual daily endeavors of a great people to do the tasks of the day and live up to the ideals of honesty and righteousness and just conduct.

The trouble has been that when they came in the past—they came with all their bristles out; they came on the defensive; they came to see, not what they could accomplish, but what they could prevent.

candor and a sense of duty with regard to the responsibility so clearly imposed upon me by the Constitution in matters of legislation leave me no choice but to dissent.

Hitherto we have generously kept our doors open to all who were not unfitted by reason of disease or incapacity for self-support or such personal records and antecedents as were likely to make them a menace to our peace and order or to the…

I have always been very impatient of processes and institutions which said that their purpose was to put every man in the way of developing his character.

Christ came into the world to save others, not to save himself; and no man is a true Christian who does not think constantly of how he can lift his brother, how he can assist his friend, how he can enlighten mankind, how he can make virtue…

The thing had needed to be done for a long time, but nobody had ventured before to undertake it in systematic fashion.

The lobby by which some of the worst features of the old tariff had been maintained was driven away by the mere pitiless turning on of the light.

The program was a great one, and it is a matter of deep satisfaction to think of the way in which it has been handled.

With this new legislation there is clear and sufficient law to check and destroy the noxious growth in its infancy.

Business has already adjusted itself to the new conditions with singular ease and elasticity, because the new conditions are in fact more normal than the old.

The principle was adopted that each duty levied was to be tested by the inquiry whether it was put at such a figure and levied in such a manner as to provoke competition.

The whole resources of the country are mobilized, to be employed where they are most needed.

The safest hiding place and covert of such control was in the tariff.