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.
WOODROW WILSONAmerica is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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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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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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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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I 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.
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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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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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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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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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No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
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It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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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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It 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.
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