If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.
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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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
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If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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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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Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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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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The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
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I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
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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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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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No 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.
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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 cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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We must believe the things We teach our children
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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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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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