There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
WOODROW WILSONThere must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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 WILSONWhat every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
WOODROW WILSONHigh society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
WOODROW WILSONI would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
WOODROW WILSONThere’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
WOODROW WILSONI have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
WOODROW WILSONWe are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
WOODROW WILSONMen 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.
WOODROW WILSONNever murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
WOODROW WILSONHas justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
WOODROW WILSONA presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
WOODROW WILSONThere is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
WOODROW WILSONThe seed of revolution is repression.
WOODROW WILSONThe history of liberty is a history of resistance.
WOODROW WILSONIt is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
WOODROW WILSON