black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

Woodrow Wilson

Only peace between equals can last.
WOODROW WILSON

Equality Last Peace
There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
WOODROW WILSON

Peace Price Respect
The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
WOODROW WILSON

Darkness Light Ourselves Path Shadow True
Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
WOODROW WILSON

Growth Man Responsibility
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.
WOODROW WILSON

Forever Himself Human Kind Man Resistance World
We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
WOODROW WILSON

Act Body Politics Regard Socialist
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
WOODROW WILSON

Counseling Heat Judgment Light
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
WOODROW WILSON

Balance Organization Peace Power Rivalry
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
WOODROW WILSON

Change Consult Doubt
All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
WOODROW WILSON

Knowledge Patience Wait Wisdom
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.
WOODROW WILSON

Action Appearance Expression Suggestion
The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
WOODROW WILSON

Enterprise Greatness Man Vision Willing
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

Battle Believe Courage Moral Physical Soldier Stay
Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
WOODROW WILSON

Big Business Dangerous Enjoyment Privilege
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
WOODROW WILSON

Leadership People Ring Voice
Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
WOODROW WILSON

Breed Hungry Impossible Life Mad Order Reform

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Woodrow Wilson Quotes