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.
WOODROW WILSONThe 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.
WOODROW WILSONWhen I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
WOODROW WILSONHigh society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
WOODROW WILSONThe history of liberty is a history of resistance.
WOODROW WILSONThe man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
WOODROW WILSONIf you want to make enemies, try to change something.
WOODROW WILSONIf 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 WILSONOnly peace between equals can last.
WOODROW WILSONMen grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
WOODROW WILSONThere 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.
WOODROW WILSONI had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
WOODROW WILSONThe object of love is to serve, not to win.
WOODROW WILSONWe are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
WOODROW WILSONLiberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
WOODROW WILSONI 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 WILSONA man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
WOODROW WILSON