I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
WOODROW WILSONThe sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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No 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.
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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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Men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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