America was born a Christian nation.
WOODROW WILSONAmerica was born a Christian nation.
WOODROW WILSONBenevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.
WOODROW WILSONThe 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.
WOODROW WILSONNo government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
WOODROW WILSONThe whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
WOODROW WILSONWhat is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
WOODROW WILSONI could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
WOODROW WILSONWe ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
WOODROW WILSONTo do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
WOODROW WILSONProgressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
WOODROW WILSONThe world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
WOODROW WILSONIf I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
WOODROW WILSONThought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
WOODROW WILSONWhat every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
WOODROW WILSONBig business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
WOODROW WILSONNo people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
WOODROW WILSON