Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
WOODROW WILSONGovernment, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
WOODROW WILSONEvery people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
WOODROW WILSONBusiness underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
WOODROW WILSONThere is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
WOODROW WILSONThere’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
WOODROW WILSONI would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
WOODROW WILSONI had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
WOODROW WILSONIf the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
WOODROW WILSONGovernment ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
WOODROW WILSONConformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
WOODROW WILSONOne cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
WOODROW WILSONThe seed of revolution is repression.
WOODROW WILSONI am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
WOODROW WILSONWhat every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
WOODROW WILSONI do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
WOODROW WILSONWe grow by our dreams.
WOODROW WILSON