Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up. Woodrow Wilson More Quotes by Woodrow Wilson More Quotes From Woodrow Wilson The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others. Woodrow Wilson forget 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. Woodrow Wilson fightingmenwar 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. Woodrow Wilson vividopinionmind 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. Woodrow Wilson brotherchristianthinking 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. Woodrow Wilson winemenbelieve We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead. Woodrow Wilson beatendefeatfighting 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. Woodrow Wilson butterflystupidchildren I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth. Woodrow Wilson teethsides 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. Woodrow Wilson collegemenpast The fewer the desires, the more peace. Woodrow Wilson fewerdesire 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." Woodrow Wilson voicehumanitybook Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity. Woodrow Wilson responsibilityopportunity Death, like the quintessence of otherness, is for others. Woodrow Wilson othernessquintessence We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting. Woodrow Wilson policywaitingbelieve Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics. Woodrow Wilson toleranceintellectuallittles If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing. Woodrow Wilson politicspoliticalthinking The legislator must be in advance of his age. Woodrow Wilson agesightmind We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world. Woodrow Wilson free-opinionworld-governmentnwo Tell me what is right and I will fight for it. Woodrow Wilson fighting 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. Woodrow Wilson humanityfundamentalsjustice
