There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
WOODROW WILSONThe world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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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.
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We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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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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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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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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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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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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The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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