62 result(s) for Woodrow Wilson Quotes.
"Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no dissenters, we should still be living in caves."
"We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end."
"The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal."
"This is a day of victory. Our own country is the stronger for it."
"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits."
"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."
"The peace of the world must be maintained by force. The right must be more than a riot."
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"The object of love is to serve, not to win."
"There are no words so eloquent as actions."
"The seeds of wisdom may be found in the seeds of our experience."
"I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail."
"Right is more precious than peace. We shall fight for what is right, and if we win, peace shall follow."
"The world must be made safe for democracy."
"I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty."
"Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership."
"Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice."
"Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together."
"No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation."
"The world’s problem is not the charting of its own course, but the willingness of the people to chart that course."
"The seed of revolution is repression."
"No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence."
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"I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something."
"The government of the United States at the close of the last century passed out of the hands of the many and into the hands of the few."
"Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling."
"The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the rest of the world do as it will."
"It is not only our duty to make the right known, but to make it prevalent."
"The best way to be a success is to have a good disposition, wholesome values and concentrate on what one excels in."
"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all the brains that I can borrow."
"My dream is that as the years go by and the world knows more and more of America, it will also drink at these fountains and be filled with the wisdom that is drawn from them."
"The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them."
"The success of any government is due to administration, not legislation."
"Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance."
"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow."
"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."
"I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose."
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"The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history."
"The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is to challenge them."
"We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers."
"The world's best teacher is experience, and it will be a silent tutor."
"One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels."
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something."
"The history of liberty is a history of resistance."
"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it."
"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow."
"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."
"The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty."
"The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people."
"A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits."
"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."
"America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men."
"I not only have a right to be satisfied, I have a duty to be."
"Men are not only wonderfully made, but especially made to explore and adventure more in the grim, tall world of thought than in the pleasant paths of unnecessary, easy and thoughtless action."
"There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed."
"There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control or singly cope with."
"When I spoke, I ran into the sycophants who tell me what I want to hear, or would if I were as they are."
"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."
"Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting."
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance."
"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."
"The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that a man does by using an obstacle is to remove it out of his way, which he could do better without it."
"No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace at home."
"Godliness consists in loving the living God and manifesting that love by perfecting the life God has given us. When God gives his life, we are to love and live that life and show forth its divineness by steadily growing in moral stature and in the strength of character."
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