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 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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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To 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.
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There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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The 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.
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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We must believe the things We teach our children
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We grow by our dreams.
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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The sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
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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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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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America was born a Christian nation.
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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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