I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something. Woodrow Wilson More Quotes by Woodrow Wilson More Quotes From Woodrow Wilson When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare. Woodrow Wilson warfare arms men I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy.... So I feel tonight like the man who is lodging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey and that in time, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey's end like men with a quiet conscience. Woodrow Wilson ambition sleep lying 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. Woodrow Wilson thoughtful confused voice The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties. Woodrow Wilson government power death The right is more precious than peace. Woodrow Wilson small-nations military The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history. Woodrow Wilson patriotism embodiment patriotic I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist's trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost. Woodrow Wilson using-words novelists sound I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. . . . No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others. Woodrow Wilson war mean america I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. Woodrow Wilson motivational inspirational life Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live. Woodrow Wilson sovereignty presidential people It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin. Woodrow Wilson cabins palaces leader 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. Woodrow Wilson democracy understanding men 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. Woodrow Wilson suffering doe feelings A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes. Woodrow Wilson success may men I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession. Woodrow Wilson peace mean believe 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.' Woodrow Wilson writing two long If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training ingive and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spiritthe consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit. Woodrow Wilson taken college men That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic. Woodrow Wilson cynical democracy kings For my part, I am very much more afraid of the man who does a bad thing and does not know it is bad than of the man who does a bad thing and knows it is bad; because I think that in public affairs stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because harder to fight and dislodge. Woodrow Wilson stupidity government fighting 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 selfish inspirational character
