America was born a Christian nation.
WOODROW WILSONNo man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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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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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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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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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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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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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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Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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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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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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