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.
WOODROW WILSONWhen men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
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Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
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I 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.’
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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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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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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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