...it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you. Woodrow Wilson More Quotes by Woodrow Wilson More Quotes From Woodrow Wilson I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure. Woodrow Wilson sorrybiblemen Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril. Woodrow Wilson determinationprinciplesself Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of life, not of mechanics; it must develop. All that progressives ask or desire is permission-in an era when 'development,' 'evolution,' is the scientific word-to interpret the Constitution according to the Darwinian principle; all they ask is recognition of the fact that a nation is a living thing and not a machine. Woodrow Wilson politicalpracticelaw [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. Woodrow Wilson free-opinionnwomen 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. Woodrow Wilson luxuryessentialsmen I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose. Woodrow Wilson patrioticmotivationalinspirational There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against. Woodrow Wilson purposegivingmen The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless. Woodrow Wilson heartlesseconomictruth The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country. Woodrow Wilson selfmencountry To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest. Woodrow Wilson conquer-the-worldarmsearning America was born a Christian nation. Woodrow Wilson bornchristianamerica 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 teachingteacherlong ...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them. Woodrow Wilson marineamericaworld The history of liberty is a history of resistance. Woodrow Wilson political-freedomresistanceliberty You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand Woodrow Wilson spiritual-visionworld-visionachievement The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history. Woodrow Wilson independencerightspeople Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation. Woodrow Wilson powerteamworkinspirational The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually. Woodrow Wilson survivalmattercivilization A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. Woodrow Wilson grandmotherpoliticaldoubt 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. Woodrow Wilson world-governmentnwobankers
