One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
WOODROW WILSONOne cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
WOODROW WILSONDemocracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
WOODROW WILSONSelf-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
WOODROW WILSONThe cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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 WILSONExcesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
WOODROW WILSONAmerica was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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 WILSONUnless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
WOODROW WILSONYou cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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.
WOODROW WILSONThe 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.
WOODROW WILSONNo man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
WOODROW WILSONIf 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.
WOODROW WILSONWe grow by our dreams.
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.
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