black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

Woodrow Wilson

To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
WOODROW WILSON

Confidence Temporary Value World
Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
WOODROW WILSON

Act Action Life Thinking
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
WOODROW WILSON

Borrow Brain Myself
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.
WOODROW WILSON

Luxury Man Music National Need
The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
WOODROW WILSON

Counseling Democracy Man Purpose Understand
Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
WOODROW WILSON

Big Business Dangerous Enjoyment Privilege
There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
WOODROW WILSON

Better Counseling Difficult Life Man Possible Stand
Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
WOODROW WILSON

Opportunity Responsibility
A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
WOODROW WILSON

Dignity Easy Lose Man Personal President
Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
WOODROW WILSON

Children Commercial Man Modern Myself Rival Rivalry Woman World
We grow by our dreams.
WOODROW WILSON

Dreams Growth One Liner
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
WOODROW WILSON

Country Patriot People
The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
WOODROW WILSON

Capital Combination Government Manufacturer
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
WOODROW WILSON

Government Help Man Representation Willing
The world must be made safe for democracy.
WOODROW WILSON

Democracy Safety World
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
WOODROW WILSON

Character Devotion Himself Man People Thinking

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Woodrow Wilson Quotes