Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
WOODROW WILSONThe roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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We must believe the things We teach our children
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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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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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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
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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.
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No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
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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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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper’s that make an ordered life impossible.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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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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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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