The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
WOODROW WILSONThe masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
WOODROW WILSONThe 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.
WOODROW WILSONWe want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
WOODROW WILSONTo be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
WOODROW WILSONMen grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
WOODROW WILSONMen 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.
WOODROW WILSONI would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
WOODROW WILSONTo conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
WOODROW WILSONToday’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
WOODROW WILSONA nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
WOODROW WILSONNever murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
WOODROW WILSONNo student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
WOODROW WILSONUnderstanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
WOODROW WILSONBig business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
WOODROW WILSONWhen I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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 WILSON