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.
WOODROW WILSONIt does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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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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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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America was born a Christian nation.
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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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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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.
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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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