black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

Woodrow Wilson

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
WOODROW WILSON

Change Consult Doubt
A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
WOODROW WILSON

Action Goodness Herself Himself Humble Mistake
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.
WOODROW WILSON

Character Health Lose Lost Wealth Yourself
Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
WOODROW WILSON

Determination Ignorance Phrase Work
The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
WOODROW WILSON

Financial Mobile Stop Way
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
WOODROW WILSON

Achievement Forget Greatness Hope Live Mistake Order Vision World Yourself
We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
WOODROW WILSON

Beat Death Fight Live
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.
WOODROW WILSON

Brother Circle Enlightenment Kind Live Man People Sister Thinking True
When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
WOODROW WILSON

Children Heat Light
The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
WOODROW WILSON

Forget King Service Value
The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
WOODROW WILSON

Bad Live Open Politics
Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
WOODROW WILSON

Man Pay Penalty Refuse Virtue
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.
WOODROW WILSON

Action Document Government Independence Practical Program Theory
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
WOODROW WILSON

Caution Reason Secret Selfish
Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
WOODROW WILSON

Choice Live People Right
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
WOODROW WILSON

Democracy Form Government Principle

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Woodrow Wilson Quotes