Woodrow Wilson Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.
But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts
There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.
Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.
We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.
The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.
To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.
America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.
People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.
Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work.
Let it be your pride to show all men everywhere not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men you are.
Men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
If Freud had worn a kilt in the prescribed Highland manner he might have had a very different attitude to genitals.
You devour a book meant to be read, not because you would fill yourself or have an anxious care to be nourished, but because it contains such stuff
I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has (been) deprived of (the Bible).
Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.
To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life ...
You know how impossible it is, in short, to have a free nation if it is a military nation and under military orders
We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.
No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.
The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.
There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.
I firmly believe in Divine Providence. Without belief in Providence I think I should go crazy. Without God the world would be a maze without a clue.
The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.
Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
There is nothing that succeeds in life like boldness, provided you believe you are on the right side.
We didn't have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren't counted as human beings.
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.
Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
I would rather fail in a cause that would ultimately succeed, than succeed in a cause that would ultimately fail.
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.