Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
WOODROW WILSONThere 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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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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Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
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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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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
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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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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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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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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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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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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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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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No 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.
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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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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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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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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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