What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
WOODROW WILSONWhat is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
WOODROW WILSONNo man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
WOODROW WILSONWe have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
WOODROW WILSONThere must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
WOODROW WILSONWhen men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
WOODROW WILSON“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
WOODROW WILSONNo people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
WOODROW WILSONTo be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
WOODROW WILSONA man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
WOODROW WILSONThought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
WOODROW WILSONLoyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
WOODROW WILSONAll things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
WOODROW WILSONThe 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 WILSONWe have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
WOODROW WILSONAny man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
WOODROW WILSONA presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
WOODROW WILSON