 |
America
|
|
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.
-Woodrow Wilson
|
|
|
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.
-Woodrow Wilson
|
|
|
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.
-Woodrow Wilson
|
|
Bread
|
|
|
In the Lords prayer, the first petition is for daily bread; no one can worship God, or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
-Woodrow Wilson
|
|
Business
|
|
|
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
-Woodrow Wilson
|
|
Caution
|
|
|
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
-Woodrow Wilson
|
|
Change
|
|
|
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
-Woodrow Wilson
|
|
Character
|
|
|
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.
-Woodrow Wilson
|
|
|
Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
-Woodrow Wilson
|
|
|
-Woodrow Wilson
|
|
Criticism
|
|
|
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.
-Woodrow Wilson
|
|
Curiosity
|
|
|
Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.
-Woodrow Wilson
|
|
Deception/Lying
|
|
|
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....
-Woodrow Wilson, from Congressional Government, p. 109
|
|
Democracy
|
|
|
I believe in democracy, because it releases the energies of every human being.
-Woodrow Wilson
|
|
|
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
-Woodrow Wilson
|
|
|
America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.
-Woodrow Wilson
|
|
|
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
-Woodrow Wilson
|
|
|
The world must be made safe for democracy.
-Woodrow Wilson
|
|
Dreams
|
|
|
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 great 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.
-Woodrow Wilson
|
|
Economics
|
|
|
The truth is, we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
-Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom 1913, Chapter 1
|
|
Excellence
|
|
|
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.
-Woodrow Wilson
|
|
Fear
|
|
|
Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
-Woodrow Wilson
|
|
Friends
|
|
|
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
-Woodrow Wilson
|
|
|
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
-Woodrow Wilson
|
|
Growth
|
|
|
When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
-Woodrow Wilson
|
Books by and about Woodrow Wilson