As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
WOODROW WILSONGovernment, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
-
-
To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
WOODROW WILSON -
We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
WOODROW WILSON -
It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
WOODROW WILSON -
The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.
WOODROW WILSON -
We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
WOODROW WILSON -
High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
WOODROW WILSON -
What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
WOODROW WILSON -
You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
WOODROW WILSON -
Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
WOODROW WILSON -
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
WOODROW WILSON -
No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
WOODROW WILSON -
Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
WOODROW WILSON -
Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
WOODROW WILSON -
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.
WOODROW WILSON -
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
WOODROW WILSON