Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
WOODROW WILSONHunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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America was born a Christian nation.
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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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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The seed of revolution is repression.
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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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If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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The right is more precious than peace.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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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 rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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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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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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