Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
WOODROW WILSONWhen 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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To 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.
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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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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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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.
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I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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Men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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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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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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