Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
WOODROW WILSONAt 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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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.
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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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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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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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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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I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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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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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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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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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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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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