Woodrow Wilson
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.Collection: Air
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.Collection: Men
No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.Collection: Peace
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.Collection: Law
The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.Collection: Law
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.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Swimming
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.Collection: Suffering
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.Collection: Justice
A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.Collection: Believe
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.Collection: Men
...to make the world safe for democracy.Collection: Strong Women
If you would be a leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Freedom
Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.Collection: War
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.Collection: Passion