Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
WOODROW WILSONThe sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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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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America was born a Christian nation.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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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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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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There 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.
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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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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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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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.
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