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.
WOODROW WILSONNever murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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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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Only peace between equals can last.
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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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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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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 princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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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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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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To 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.
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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.
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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.
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