I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
WOODROW WILSONAt 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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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 ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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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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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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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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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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Any 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.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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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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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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