No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
WOODROW WILSONI would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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America was born a Christian nation.
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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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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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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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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.
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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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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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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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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The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
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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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As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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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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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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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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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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