Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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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Men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
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The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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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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The seed of revolution is repression.
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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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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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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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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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Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
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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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