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 WILSONPower consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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We grow by our dreams.
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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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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.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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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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Only peace between equals can last.
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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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Thought 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.
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