The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
WOODROW WILSONThe use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
WOODROW WILSONLiberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
WOODROW WILSONWe have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
WOODROW WILSONI would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
WOODROW WILSONThere is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
WOODROW WILSONThe princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
WOODROW WILSONThe ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
WOODROW WILSONYou 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.
WOODROW WILSONNo man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
WOODROW WILSONNo 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.
WOODROW WILSONI believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
WOODROW WILSONNo 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.
WOODROW WILSONYou are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
WOODROW WILSONA little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
WOODROW WILSONThe fewer the desires, the more peace.
WOODROW WILSONThis 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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