If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
WOODROW WILSONLoyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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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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We must believe the things We teach our children
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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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“Genius is divine perseverance.” Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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All things come to him who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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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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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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