Top quotes by Woodrow Wilson

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. Votes: 39

Business 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. Votes: 34

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions. Votes: 29

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. Votes: 26

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. Votes: 25

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. Votes: 20

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. Votes: 18

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving. Votes: 18

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past. Votes: 17

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience. Votes: 17

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. Votes: 15

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. Votes: 14

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence. Votes: 14

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness. Votes: 11

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. Votes: 11

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses. Votes: 11

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people. Votes: 11

If you want to make enemies, try to change something. Votes: 11

The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind. Votes: 10

Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide. Votes: 10

Tell me what is right and I will fight for it. Votes: 10

I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it. Votes: 9

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. Votes: 8

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. Votes: 8

Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name. Votes: 8

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study. Votes: 7

Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country. Votes: 6

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. Votes: 6

The history of liberty is a history of resistance. Votes: 5

I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 0

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation. Votes: 0

The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries. Votes: 0

Have you thought of the sufferings of Armenia? You poured out your money to help succor the Armenians after they suffered; now set your strength so that they shall never suffer again. Votes: 0

To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations. Votes: 0

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur. Votes: 0

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation. Votes: 0

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace. Votes: 0

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. Votes: 0

Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy. Votes: 0

The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have. Votes: 0

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign. Votes: 0

The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators. Votes: 0

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. Votes: 0

The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile. Votes: 0

No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live. Votes: 0

Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like. Votes: 0

So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus. Votes: 0

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this. Votes: 0

Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace. Votes: 0

This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own.... Votes: 0

Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide. Votes: 0

Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it. Votes: 0

There is a power so organized, so subtle, so complete, and so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it. Votes: 0

We are expected to put the utmost energy, of every power that we have, into the service of our fellow men, never sparing ourselves, not condescending to think of what is going to happen to ourselves, but ready, if need be, to go to the utter length of self-sacrifice. Votes: 0

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. Votes: 0

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind. Votes: 0

No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property. Votes: 0

The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them. Votes: 0

I have received delegations of working men who come, apparently speaking of the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine hardship to be deprived of their beer. Votes: 0

The world must be made safe for democracy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It must be a peace without victory...Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last. Votes: 0

[We are] no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men. Votes: 0

The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless. Votes: 0

The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history. Votes: 0

An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy Votes: 0

You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand Votes: 0

Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work. Votes: 0

Fear God and you need not fear anyone else. Votes: 0

This book [the Bible] speaks both the voice of God and the voice of humanity, for there is told in it the most convincing of human experience that has ever been written...and those who heed that story will know their strength and happiness and success are all summed up in the exhortation, "Fear God and keep His commandments." Votes: 0

While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free. Votes: 0

We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite. Votes: 0

When I think of the flag.... I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice, and stripes of blood to vindicate those rights, and then, in the corner, a prediction of the blue serene into which every nation may swim which stands for these great things. Votes: 0

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles. Votes: 0

Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty. Votes: 0

The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause which they did not pretend was peculiarly their own, which they knew was the cause of humanity and mankind. These Americans gave the greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit. Votes: 0

That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too. Votes: 0

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. Votes: 0

The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history. Votes: 0

This is a war to end all wars. Votes: 0

The beauty of a democracy is that you never can tell when a youngster is born what he is going to do with himself, and that no matter how humbly he is born, no matter where he is born, no matter what circumstances hamper him at the outset, he has got a chance to master the minds and lead the imaginations of the whole country. Votes: 0

I must beg you to indulge me in the matter of hyphens.... You will find that I have marked out a great many in the proofs. We arein danger of Germanizing our printing by using them so much, and I have a very decided preference in the matter. Votes: 0

Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over. Votes: 0

I am sorry for those that disagree with me because I know that they are wrong. Votes: 0

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership. Votes: 0

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men. Votes: 0

May it not suffice for me to say ... that of course like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised. Votes: 0

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. Votes: 0

If Freud had worn a kilt in the prescribed Highland manner he might have had a very different attitude to genitals. Votes: 0

A living thing is born. Votes: 0

We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.... We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to suceed and be great. Our thought has been 'Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself,' while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves. Votes: 0

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 forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks. Votes: 0

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice. Votes: 0

I 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. Votes: 0

To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life. Votes: 0

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt. Votes: 0

The competent leader of men cares little for the niceties of other peoples' characters: he cares much--everything--for the exterior uses to which they may be put.... These are men to be moved. How should he move them? He supplies the power; others simply the materials on which that power operates. Votes: 0

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape. Votes: 0

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We must strive for normalcy to reach stability. Votes: 0

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. Votes: 0

America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand. Votes: 0

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic. Votes: 0

Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God. Votes: 0

Let me... remind you that it is only by working with an energy which is almost superhuman and which looks to uninterested spectators like insanity that we can accomplish anything worth the achievement. Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality. Votes: 0

A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man. Votes: 0

There is such a thing as man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right. Votes: 0

There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. Votes: 0

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Votes: 0

If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect me, then for the sake of his soul I have got occasionally to knock him down. Votes: 0

America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture. Votes: 0

The seed of revolution is repression. Votes: 0

I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country, Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it. Votes: 0

No man can rationally live, worship, or love his neighbour on an empty stomach. Votes: 0

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. Votes: 0

It is ... particularly true of constitutional government that its atmosphere is opinion .... It does not remain fixed in any unchanging form, but grows with the growth and is altered with the change of the nation's needs and purposes. Votes: 0

Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place. Votes: 0

Government 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. Votes: 0

Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril. Votes: 0

What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence. Votes: 0

There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality. Votes: 0

It has become a people's war, and peoples of all sorts and races, of every degree of power and variety of fortune, are involved inits sweeping processes of change and settlement. Votes: 0

No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. Votes: 0

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative', one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary', one who won't go at all. Votes: 0

If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing. Votes: 0

The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached. Votes: 0

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams. Votes: 0

...I 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. Votes: 0

Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity; even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--"rather tawny perhaps, but look at his eye! Votes: 0

We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end. Votes: 0

We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back. Votes: 0

I am not willing to be drawn further into the toils. I cannot accede to the acceptance of gifts upon terms which take the educational policy of the university out of the hands of the Trustees and Faculty and permit it to be determined by those who give money. Votes: 0

The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it. Votes: 0

I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist's trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost. Votes: 0

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose. Votes: 0

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind. Votes: 0

All things come to him who waits Votes: 0

We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt. Votes: 0

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it. Votes: 0

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. Votes: 0

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States. Votes: 0

He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

... so far as religion is concerned, argument is adjourned. Votes: 0

...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the Middle Ages... The Laws of Moses as well as the laws of Rome contributed suggestions and impulse to the men and institutions which were to prepare the modern world; and if we could have but eyes to see... we should readily discover how very much besides religion we owe to the Jew. Votes: 0

...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. Votes: 0

...to make the world safe for democracy. Votes: 0

A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up. Votes: 0

A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men who, even if their action be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom. Votes: 0

A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has (been) deprived of (the Bible). Votes: 0

A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him. Votes: 0

A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes. Votes: 0

A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes. Votes: 0

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage. Votes: 0

A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file. Votes: 0

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about. Votes: 0

A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been of defense that we have thought, never of aggression or of conquest. But who shall tell us now what sort of Navy to build? We shall take leave to be strong upon the seas, in the future as in the past; and there will be no thought of offense or provocation in that. Our ships are our natural bulwarks. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation. Votes: 0

A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life. Votes: 0

All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation. Votes: 0

All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for. Votes: 0

America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom - is moral, not material. We have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man. Votes: 0

America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us. Votes: 0

America is the only idealistic nation in the world. Votes: 0

America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it. Votes: 0

America was born a Christian nation, Votes: 0

America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness, which are derived from Holy Scripture. Ladies and gentlemen, I have a very simple thing to ask of you. I ask of every man and woman in this audience that, from this night on, they will realize that part of the destiny of America lies in their daily perusal of this great Book of revelations. (The Bible) That if they would see America free and pure they will make their own spirits free and pure by the baptism of Holy Scripture. Votes: 0

Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America. Votes: 0

An evident principleis the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak. Votes: 0

And while you bring all countries with you, you come with a purpose of leaving all other countries behind you - bringing what is best of their spirit, but not looking over your shoulders and seeking to perpetuate what you intended to leave behind in them. Votes: 0

As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes. Votes: 0

At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it. Votes: 0

Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself to practise law, followed another large body of young men in deciding to abandon it. Votes: 0

Be militant! Be an organization that is going to do things! If you can find older men who will give you countenance and acceptableleadership, follow them; but if you cannot, organize separately and dispense with them. There are only two sorts of men to be associated with when something is to be done: Those are young men and men who never grow old. Votes: 0

Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers. Votes: 0

But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts Votes: 0

But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts--for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free. Votes: 0

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty. Votes: 0

Death comes along like a gas bill one can't payand that's all one can sayabout it. Votes: 0

Death, like the quintessence of otherness, is for others. Votes: 0

Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up. Votes: 0

Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks and not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control. Votes: 0

Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him. Votes: 0

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 swelling or growing. The mischief of it is that when they swell, they do not swell enough to burst. Votes: 0

Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live. Votes: 0

Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself. Votes: 0

Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government. Votes: 0

From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of history's high noon when nations stand forth full grown and self-governed, the law of coherence and continuity in political development has suffered no serious breach. Votes: 0

God knows that any man who would seek the presidency of the United States is a fool for his pains. The burden is all but intolerable, and the things that I have to do are just as much as the human spirit can carry. Votes: 0

Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to obey. That is all it is. Votes: 0

Government is not a warfare of interests. Votes: 0

Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force. Votes: 0

Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over which they are set, and may thus be said to possess the souls of poets at the same time they display the coarser sense and the more vulgar sagacity of practical men of business. Votes: 0

Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power? Votes: 0

Here lies, in a "horizontal" position The "outside" case of Peter Pendulum, watch-maker. He departed this life "wound up" In hopes of being "taken in hand" by his Maker, And of being thoroughly "cleaned, repaired" and "set a-going" In the world to come. Votes: 0

High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do. Votes: 0

His [the President's] office is anything he has the sagacity and force to make it. Votes: 0

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible. Votes: 0

I am a most unhappy man. I accidentally ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit. Our government is no longer based on the freedom of opinion, nor on the conviction and the majority decision, it is now a government which is subjected to the conviction and the compulsion of a small group of dominant men. Votes: 0

I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world - no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men. Votes: 0

I am all kinds of a democrat, so far as I can discover but the root of the whole business is this, that I believe in the patriotism and energy and initiative of the average man. Votes: 0

I am not one of those who have the least anxiety about the triumph of the principles I have stood for. I have seen fools resist Providence before, and I have seen their destruction, as will come upon these again, utter destruction and contempt. That we shall prevail is as sure as that God reigns. Votes: 0

I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered. Votes: 0

I am so glad that I am young, so that I may give my youth to you. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being. Votes: 0

I believe in human liberty as I believe in the wine of life. There is no salvation for men in the pitiful condescension of industrial masters. Guardians have no place in a land of freemen. Votes: 0

I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in. Votes: 0

I believe very profoundly in an over-ruling Providence, and I do not fear that any real plans can be thrown off the track. It maynot be intended that I shall be President--but that would not break my heart. Votes: 0

I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism. Votes: 0

I come from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its terrible wreckage and ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamor for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or the son of some poor widow - who will have to do the fighting and dying. Votes: 0

I confess my belief in the common man.... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn. Votes: 0

I do not want to live under a philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government.... We do not want a benevolent government. We want a free and a just government. Votes: 0

I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated. Votes: 0

I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.' Votes: 0

I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy.... So I feel tonight like the man who is lodging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey and that in time, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey's end like men with a quiet conscience. Votes: 0

I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win. Votes: 0

I have rather a strange objection to talking from the back platform of a train.... It changes too often. It moves around and shifts its ground too often. I like a platform that stays put. Votes: 0

I have sometimes heard men say politics must have nothing to do with business, and I have often wished that business had nothing to do with politics. Votes: 0

I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it. Votes: 0

I lived a dream life (almost too exclusively, perhaps) when I was a lad and even now my thought goes back for refreshment to thosedays when all the world seemed to be a place of heroic adventure in which one's heart must keep its own counsel. Votes: 0

I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character. Votes: 0

I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will. Votes: 0

I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace. Votes: 0

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it. Votes: 0

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now. Votes: 0

If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it. Votes: 0

If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything. Votes: 0

If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle. Votes: 0

If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play ison the boards and the audience in the seats.... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards. Votes: 0

If you would be a leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next. Votes: 0

If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training ingive and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spiritthe consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit. Votes: 0

If you've made up your mind you can do something, you're absolutely RIGHT. Votes: 0

I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles. Votes: 0

In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. Limits of wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principle there are, upon strict analysis, none. Votes: 0

In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them. Votes: 0

Is there any man, is there any woman, let me say any child here that does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry? Votes: 0

It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America. Votes: 0

It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts. Votes: 0

It is a protest against the way the world has worked. (explanation of Bolshevism) Votes: 0

It is easier to move a cemetery than to change a curriculum. Votes: 0

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you. Votes: 0

It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation. Votes: 0

It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die. Votes: 0

It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization. Votes: 0

It must be a peace without victory Votes: 0

It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity. Votes: 0

It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting for their indepdence into a war waged against states fighting for the maintenance and extension of slavery...and the world, it might be hoped, would see it as a moral war, not a political; and the sympathy of nations would begin to run for the North, not for the South. Votes: 0

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs. Votes: 0

It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin. Votes: 0

Jefferson's Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action. Votes: 0

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people. Votes: 0

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people, and her example, her assistance, her encouragement, has thrilled two continents in this western world with all those fine impulses which have built up human liberty on sides of the water. She stands, therefore, as an example of independence, as an example of free institutions, and as an example of disinterested international action in the main tenets of justice. Votes: 0

Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity. Votes: 0

Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto. Votes: 0

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Votes: 0

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause arises in the midst of a nation. Men of strenuous minds and high ideals come forward.... The attacks they sustain are more cruel than the collision of arms.... Friends desert and despise them.... They stand alone and oftentimes are made bitter by their isolation.... They are doing nothing less than defy public opinion, and shall they convert it by blows. Yes. Votes: 0

Let him [the President] once win the admiration and confidence of the country, and no other single force can withstand him, no combination of forces will easily overpower him.... If he rightly interpret the national thought and boldly insist upon it, he is irresistible; and the country never feels the zest of action so much as when the President is of such insight and caliber. Votes: 0

Let it be your pride to show all men everywhere not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men you are. Votes: 0

Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional Votes: 0

Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action. Votes: 0

Liberty is its own reward. Votes: 0

Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting. Votes: 0

Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of life, not of mechanics; it must develop. All that progressives ask or desire is permission-in an era when 'development,' 'evolution,' is the scientific word-to interpret the Constitution according to the Darwinian principle; all they ask is recognition of the fact that a nation is a living thing and not a machine. Votes: 0

Man is much more than a 'rational being' and lives more by sympathies and impressions than by conclusions. It darkens his eyes and dries up the wells of his humanity to be forever in search of doctrine. We need wholesome, experiencing natures, I dare affirm, much more than we need sound reasoning. Votes: 0

Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them. Votes: 0

Movies are like writing history with lightning. Votes: 0

Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense. Votes: 0

My best training came from my father. Votes: 0

My dream is that as the years go by and the world knows more and more of America, itwill turn to America for those moral inspirations that lie at the basis of all freedomthat America will come into the full light of the day when all shall know that she puts human rights above all other rights, and that her flag is the flag not only of America but of humanity. Votes: 0

My hope is ... that we may recover ... something of a renewal of that vision of the law with which men may be supposed to have started out with in the old days of the oracles, who communed with the intimations of divinity. Votes: 0

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together. Votes: 0

My urgent advice to you would be, not only always to think first of America, but always, also, to think first of humanity. You do not love humanity if you seek to divide humanity into jealous camps. Humanity can be welded together only by love, by sympathy, by justice, not by jealousy and hatred. I am sorry for the man who seeks to make personal capital out of the passions of his fellowmen. He has lost touch with the ideal of America. For America was created to unit mankind... Votes: 0

Never for a moment have I had one doubt about my religious beliefs. There are people who believe only so far as they can understand--that seems to me presumptuous and sets their understanding as the standard of the universe. Votes: 0

No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government. Votes: 0

No man can be just who is not free. Votes: 0

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States. Votes: 0

No man ever saw the people of whom he forms a part. No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States. Its personnel extends through all the nations, and across the seas, and into every corner of the world in the persons of the representatives of the United States in foreign capitals and in foreign centres of commerce. Votes: 0

No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise. Votes: 0

No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation. Votes: 0

No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report. Votes: 0

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know Votes: 0

No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work. Votes: 0

No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man. Votes: 0

Not all change is progress. Votes: 0

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now. Votes: 0

Once lead this people into war, and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street. Votes: 0

One cannot pay the price of self-respect. Votes: 0

One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils. Votes: 0

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. Ay any rate, if it is heat it ought to be white heat and not sputter, because sputtering heat is apt to spread the fire. There ought, if there is any heat at all, to be that warmth of the heart which makes every man thrust aside his own personal feeling, his own personal interest, and take thought of the welfare and benefit of others. Votes: 0

One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own. Votes: 0

Only peace between equals can last. Votes: 0

Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at. Votes: 0

Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system. Votes: 0

Our civilization cannot survive materially unless it is redeemed spiritually. It can be saved only by becoming permeated with the Spirit of Christ, and being made free and happy by practices which spring out of that spirit. Only thus can discontent be driven out and all shadows lifted from the road ahead. Votes: 0

Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, and to set up among the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles. Votes: 0

People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately. Votes: 0

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Votes: 0

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies. Votes: 0

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation. Votes: 0

Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving. Votes: 0

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life. Votes: 0

Reality is what I see, not what you see. Votes: 0

Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this. Votes: 0

Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity. Votes: 0

Scholarship cannot do without literature.... It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race, to get it out of closets and into the brains of men who stir abroad. Votes: 0

Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves. Votes: 0

Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit Votes: 0

Settlements may be temporary, but the action of the nations in the interest of peace and justice must be permanent. We can set up permanent processes. We may not be able to set up permanent decisions. Votes: 0

Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed against him must be battered down. Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused. Votes: 0

Some of the greatest and most lasting effects of genuine oratory have gone forth from secluded lecture desks into the hearts of quiet groups of students. Votes: 0

Some of us let our dreams die, but others nourish and protect them, nurse them through bad days 'till they bring them to sunshine and light. Votes: 0

Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken. Votes: 0

Such a mind we must desire to see in a woman,--a mind that stirs without irritating you, that arouses but does not belabour, amuses and yet subtly instructs. Votes: 0

Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for. Votes: 0

The allied nations with the fullest concurrence of our government and people are agreed that in Palestine shall be laid the foundations of a Jewish Commonwealth. Votes: 0

The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation. Votes: 0

The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomacand that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States. Votes: 0

The Civil War created in this country what had never existed before - a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union; it was the rebirth of the Union. Votes: 0

The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us. Votes: 0

The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document. It is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age. Its prescriptions are clear and we know what they arebut life is always your last and most authoritative critic. Votes: 0

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness. Votes: 0

The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open. Votes: 0

The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat. Votes: 0

The example of America must be the example not merely of peace because it will not fight, but of peace because peace is the healing and elevating influence of the world, and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right. Votes: 0

The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument. Votes: 0

The fewer the desires, the more peace. Votes: 0

The firm basis of government is justice, not pity. Votes: 0

The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty. Votes: 0

The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The great war that broke so suddenly upon the world two years ago, and which has swept up within its flame so great a part of thecivilized world, has affected us very profoundly.... With its causes and its objects we are not concerned. The obscure fountains from which its stupendous flood has burst we are not interested to search for or explore. Votes: 0

The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost obliged to form conclusions from impressions instead of from study.... I wish that I had more knowledge, more thorough acquaintance, with the matters involved. Votes: 0

The growth of our nation and all its activities are in the hands of a few men. Votes: 0

The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people. Votes: 0

The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself. Votes: 0

The light that shined upon the summit now seems almost to shine at our feet. Votes: 0

The literary gift is a very dangerous gift to possess if you are not telling the truth, and I would a great deal rather, for my part, have a man stumble in his speech than to feel he was so exceedingly smooth that he had better be watched both day and night. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise. Votes: 0

The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States. Votes: 0

The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. Votes: 0

The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort. Votes: 0

The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill. Votes: 0

The nature of men and of organized society dictates the maintenance in every field of action of the highest and purest standards of justice and of right dealing.... By justice the lawyer generally means the prompt, fair, and open application of impartial rules; but we call ours a Christian civilization, and a Christian conception of justice must be much higher. It must include sympathy and helpfulness and a willingness to forego self-interest in order to promote the welfare, happiness, and contentment of others and of the community as a whole. Votes: 0

The object of love is to serve, not to win Votes: 0

The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South. Votes: 0

The only way your powers can become great is by exerting them outside the circle of your own narrow, special, selfish interests. And that is the reason of Christianity. Christ came into the world to save others, not to save himself; and no man is a true Christian who does not think constantly of how he can lift his brother, how he can assist his friend, how he can enlighten mankind, how he can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which he lives. Votes: 0

The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint. Votes: 0

The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The right is more precious than peace. Votes: 0

The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty. Votes: 0

The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The soul of me is very selfish. I have gone my way after a fashion that made me the center of the plan. And you who are so individual, who are so independent a spirit, whose soul is also a kingdom, have been so loyal, so forgiving, so self-sacrificing in your willingness to live my life. Nothing but love cold have accomplished so wonderful a thing. Votes: 0

The spirit of [William] Penn will not be stayed. You cannot set limits to such knightly adventurers. After their own day is gone their spirits stalk the world, carrying inspiration everywhere that they go and reminding men of the lineage, the fine lineage, of those who have sought justice and right. Votes: 0

The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view. Votes: 0

The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually. Votes: 0

The treasury of America lies in those ambitions, those energies, that cannot be restricted to a special favored class. It depends upon the inventions of unknown men, upon the originations of unknown men, upon the ambitions of unknown men. Every country is renewed out of the ranks of the unknown, not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control. Votes: 0

The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life. Votes: 0

The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name.... We must be impartial in thought as well as in actiona nationthat neither sits in judgment upon others nor is disturbed in her own counsels and which keeps herself fit and free to do what is honest and disinterested and truly serviceable for the peace of the world. Votes: 0

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible. Votes: 0

The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand, and to know that in performing it we are serving our country. Votes: 0

The welfare, the happiness, the energy and spirit of the men and women who do the daily workis the underlying necessity of all prosperity.... There can be nothing wholesome unless their life is wholesome; there can be no contentment unless they are contented. Votes: 0

The westward march has stopped, upon the final plains of the Pacific; and now the plot thickenswith the change, the pause, the settlement, our people draw into closer groups, stand face to face, to know each other and be known. Votes: 0

The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country. Votes: 0

The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man. Votes: 0

The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens . Nothing chills nonsense like exposure to the air. Votes: 0

The 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. Votes: 0

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 consequences be what they may. Votes: 0

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. Votes: 0

There are times when words seem empty and only actions seem great. Such a time has come, and in the Providence of God America will once more have an opportunity to show the world that she was born to save mankind. Votes: 0

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect. Votes: 0

There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist. Votes: 0

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There is no indispensable man. Votes: 0

There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are seeking to be entrusted with its guidance should be left at home. Votes: 0

There is one thing that the American people always rise to and extend their hand to and that is the truth of justice, and of liberty, and of peace. We have accepted that truth and we are going to led by itand through us the world, out into pastures of quietness and peace such as the world never dreamed of before. Votes: 0

There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against. Votes: 0

There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations. Votes: 0

There will be no greater burden on our generation than to organize the forces of liberty in our time in order to make our quest ofa new freedom for America. Votes: 0

There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains. Votes: 0

They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy laden with gold out of a floating butterfly,--and these stupid [grown-up people] try to translate these things into uninteresting facts. Votes: 0

They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs. We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves drank. Votes: 0

They lived long that have lived well. Votes: 0

Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in that strange city. You hear politics until you wish that both parties were smothered in their own gas. Votes: 0

This is history written in lightning. Votes: 0

Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking. Votes: 0

To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life... Votes: 0

To think that I, the son ofthe manse, should be able to help restore the Holy Land to its people. Votes: 0

Today, supremely, it behooves us to remember that a nation shall be saved by the power that sleeps in its own bosom; or by none; shall be renewed in hope, in confidence, in strength by waters welling up from its own sweet, perennial springs. Not from above; not by patronage of its aristocrats. The flower does not bear the root, but the root the flower. Votes: 0

Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow. Votes: 0

Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics. Votes: 0

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship. Votes: 0

Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us. Votes: 0

War is only a sort of dramatic representation, a sort of dramatic symbol of a thousand forms of duty. I fancy that it is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you. Votes: 0

War isn't declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely. Votes: 0

Washington has seldom seen so numerous, so industrious or so insidious a lobby. There is every evidence that money without limit is being spent to sustain this lobby.... I know that in this I am speaking for the members of the two houses, who would rejoice as much as I would to be released from this unbearable situation. Votes: 0

We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man. Votes: 0

We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past. Votes: 0

We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world. Votes: 0

We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act. Votes: 0

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than in running before the crowd; we forget that in the resistance of the minority some of the biggest things in our own history have been accomplished, and the man who looks on the Stars and Stripes and doesn't hold a right to say nay to his neighbor, even if the neighbor is of the larger party, has forgotten the history of his country. Votes: 0

We grow by our dreams. Votes: 0

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. Votes: 0

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true. Votes: 0

We grow through our dreams. All great men and women are dreamers. Some, however, allow their dreams to die. You should nurse your dreams and protect them through bad times and tough times to the sunshine and light which always come. Votes: 0

We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead. Votes: 0

We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world. Votes: 0

We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction Votes: 0

We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction. There are many voices of counsel, but few voices of vision; there is much excitement and feverish activity, but little concert of thoughtful purpose. We are distressed by our own ungoverned, undirected energies and do many things, but nothing long. It is our duty to find ourselves. Votes: 0

We must believe the things We teach our children Votes: 0

We never found a real model (for our vision). Votes: 0

We shall fight for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free. Votes: 0

We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting. Votes: 0

We should not only master questions, but also act upon them, and act definitely. Votes: 0

We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency - clear disinterested thinking and fearless action Votes: 0

What is at the heart of all national problems? It is that we have seen the hand of material interest sometimes about to close upon our dearest rights and possessions. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Whate'er my doom; It cannot be unhappy: God hath given me The boon of resignation. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat. Votes: 0

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare. Votes: 0

When the representatives of "Big Business" think of the people, they do not include themselves. Votes: 0

When they the American soldiers came, they found fit comrades for their courage and their devotion.... Joining hands with them, the men of America gave the greatest of all gifts - the gift of life and the gift of spirit. Votes: 0

When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him. Votes: 0

Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, 3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now.' Votes: 0

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality. Votes: 0

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it. Votes: 0

You have just taken an oath of allegiance to the United States. Of allegiance to whom? Of allegiance to no one, unless it be God. Certainly not of allegiance to those who temporarily represent this great government. You have taken an oath of allegiance to a great ideal, to a great body of principles, to a great hope of the human race. Votes: 0

You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving heart I have ever known, and my love, my reverence, my admiration for you, you have increased in one evening as I should have thought only a lifetime of intimate, loving association could have increased them. You are more wonderful and lovely in my eyes than you ever were before; and my pride and joy and gratitude that you should love me with such a perfect love are beyond all expression, except in some great poem which I cannot write. Votes: 0

You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win. Votes: 0

Your enlightenment depends on the company you keep. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possessed it and tried its wares before you were ever given your brief run upon it. Votes: 0

Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things.... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind. Votes: 0