Woodrow Wilson Vision Quotations

You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.

At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.

The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.

My hope is ... that we may recover ... something of a renewal of that vision of the law with which men may be supposed to have started out with in the old days of the oracles, who communed with the intimations of divinity.

Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over which they are set, and may thus be said to possess the souls of poets at the same time they display the coarser sense and the more vulgar sagacity of practical men of business.

No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.

I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.

We never found a real model (for our vision).