This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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We must believe the things We teach our children
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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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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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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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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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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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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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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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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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