If you would be a leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next. Woodrow Wilson More Quotes by Woodrow Wilson More Quotes From Woodrow Wilson One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived. Woodrow Wilson preachingdivinityproof No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence. Woodrow Wilson patrioticmenpeace So far as the colleges go, the side-shows have swallowed up the circus, and we don't know what is going on in the main tent: and I don't want to continue as ringmaster under those conditions. Woodrow Wilson circusswallowingcollege No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property. Woodrow Wilson governmentprincipleshands In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government. Woodrow Wilson mencountryamerica It is imperative that we should not only master them, but also act upon them, and act very definitely. Woodrow Wilson mastersshould A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up. Woodrow Wilson puffhumilityuse Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force. Woodrow Wilson analysislibertygovernment Settlements may be temporary, but the action of the nations in the interest of peace and justice must be permanent. We can set up permanent processes. We may not be able to set up permanent decisions. Woodrow Wilson decisionjusticepeace My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness. Woodrow Wilson businessdreamcommon We are expected to put the utmost energy, of every power that we have, into the service of our fellow men, never sparing ourselves, not condescending to think of what is going to happen to ourselves, but ready, if need be, to go to the utter length of self-sacrifice. Woodrow Wilson sacrificementhinking There is such a thing as man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right. Woodrow Wilson fightingmenwar It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America. Woodrow Wilson heartmenamerica Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving. Woodrow Wilson standing-stillmeanmoving Liberty is its own reward. Woodrow Wilson libertyfreedomgovernment No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation. Woodrow Wilson presidentialfitjudgement 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? Woodrow Wilson justiceheartmen I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world. Woodrow Wilson unhappyhappinessmen Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. Woodrow Wilson progress-of-societylinespolitical I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered. Woodrow Wilson knackscotchfighting
