The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
WOODROW WILSONI 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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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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To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
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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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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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Only peace between equals can last.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
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There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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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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