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 WILSONIf 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 WILSONThe cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
WOODROW WILSONWhat we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
WOODROW WILSONThe world must be made safe for democracy.
WOODROW WILSONCharacter, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
WOODROW WILSONI would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
WOODROW WILSONThe sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
WOODROW WILSONNo 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.
WOODROW WILSONA fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
WOODROW WILSONI would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
WOODROW WILSONTo do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
WOODROW WILSONTo be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
WOODROW WILSONYou cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
WOODROW WILSONThe roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
WOODROW WILSONThe man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
WOODROW WILSON“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
WOODROW WILSON