Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
WOODROW WILSONBusiness underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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There 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.
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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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Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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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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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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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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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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No 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.
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