We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
WOODROW WILSONBusiness underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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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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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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Thought 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.
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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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