America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
WOODROW WILSONWe are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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We must believe the things We teach our children
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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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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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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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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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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 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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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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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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We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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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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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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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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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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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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