“Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto.”
— Woodrow Wilson
“This is a war to end all wars.”
“We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.”
“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.”
“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.”
“There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.”
“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.’”
“Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.”
“The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.”
“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.”
“If you want to make enemies, try to change something.”
“We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.”
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
“The object of love is to serve, not to win.”
“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.”
“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.”
“America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.”
“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.”
“We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.”
“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.”
“To think that I, the son of the manse, should be able to help restore the Holy Land to its people.”
“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.”
“Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.”
“If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.”
“It is easier to move a cemetery than to change a curriculum.”
“Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.”
“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.”
“Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.”
“We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.”
“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.”
“The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.”
“Let it be your pride to show all men everywhere not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men you are.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.”
“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.”
“There is no indispensable man.”
“There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.”
“Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.”
“If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.”
“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.”
“The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.”
“Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.”
“I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.”
“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.”
“We must believe the things We teach our children.”
“Not all change is progress.”
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