Woodrow Wilson
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.Collection: Men
The object of love is to serve, not to winCollection: Love
There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.Collection: World Government
[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.Collection: Men
The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.Collection: Truth
Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.Collection: Suicide
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.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Christian
Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.Collection: Responsibility
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.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Business
When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Believe
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.Collection: Friendship
Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.Collection: Accomplish Nothing
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.Collection: Loyalty
Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?Collection: Children
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.Collection: Men
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?Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Confused
I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.Collection: Feelings
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.Collection: Discipline
The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.Collection: Money
A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.Collection: Humility
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.Collection: Feelings
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us...Collection: Patriotic
The right is more precious than peace.Collection: Military
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.Collection: Two
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.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Reading
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.Collection: Lying
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.Collection: Men
No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.Collection: Inspirational
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.Collection: Men
To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.Collection: War
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.Collection: Patriotic
And when they [American soldiers] came, they found fit comrades for their courage and their devotion. ... Joining hands with these, the men of America gave that greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.Collection: Men
I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.Collection: Winning
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.Collection: Freedom
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.Collection: Peace
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.Collection: Government
There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.Collection: Fighting
Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles.Collection: War
To think that I, the son ofthe manse, should be able to help restore the Holy Land to its people.Collection: Son
This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own.Collection: College
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.Collection: Art
His [the President's] office is anything he has the sagacity and force to make it.Collection: Office
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.Collection: Country