One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
WOODROW WILSONThe object of love is to serve, not to win.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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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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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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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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No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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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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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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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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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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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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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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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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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’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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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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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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