It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
WOODROW WILSONHigh society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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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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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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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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We grow by our dreams.
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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
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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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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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