It is easier to move a cemetery than to change a curriculum. Woodrow Wilson More Quotes by Woodrow Wilson More Quotes From Woodrow Wilson Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional Woodrow Wilson libertypresident The only way your powers can become great is by exerting them outside the circle of your own narrow, special, selfish interests. And that is the reason of Christianity. Christ came into the world to save others, not to save himself; and no man is a true Christian who does not think constantly of how he can lift his brother, how he can assist his friend, how he can enlighten mankind, how he can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which he lives. Woodrow Wilson selfishbrotherchristian America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom - is moral, not material. We have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man. Woodrow Wilson passiongreatnessmen 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. Woodrow Wilson imaginationmindcountry Your enlightenment depends on the company you keep. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possessed it and tried its wares before you were ever given your brief run upon it. Woodrow Wilson company-you-keeprunningmen And while you bring all countries with you, you come with a purpose of leaving all other countries behind you - bringing what is best of their spirit, but not looking over your shoulders and seeking to perpetuate what you intended to leave behind in them. Woodrow Wilson leavingover-youcountry Man is much more than a 'rational being' and lives more by sympathies and impressions than by conclusions. It darkens his eyes and dries up the wells of his humanity to be forever in search of doctrine. We need wholesome, experiencing natures, I dare affirm, much more than we need sound reasoning. Woodrow Wilson eyeforevermen As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur. Woodrow Wilson politicianrealcollege Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide. Woodrow Wilson politicalsuicidemen The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. Woodrow Wilson patrioticpoliticalpeace My hope is ... that we may recover ... something of a renewal of that vision of the law with which men may be supposed to have started out with in the old days of the oracles, who communed with the intimations of divinity. Woodrow Wilson visionlawmen Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over. Woodrow Wilson hyphensnamesneeds Our civilization cannot survive materially unless it is redeemed spiritually. It can be saved only by becoming permeated with the Spirit of Christ, and being made free and happy by practices which spring out of that spirit. Only thus can discontent be driven out and all shadows lifted from the road ahead. Woodrow Wilson practicespringcivilization Whate'er my doom; Woodrow Wilson boongivenunhappy No man ever saw the people of whom he forms a part. No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States. Its personnel extends through all the nations, and across the seas, and into every corner of the world in the persons of the representatives of the United States in foreign Woodrow Wilson seamenpeople The literary gift is a very dangerous gift to possess if you are not telling the truth, and I would a great deal rather, for my part, have a man stumble in his speech than to feel he was so exceedingly smooth that he had better be watched both day and night. Woodrow Wilson speechmennight The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint. Woodrow Wilson officemenwar Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Woodrow Wilson luxurypoliticspolitical A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this. Woodrow Wilson presidentialbiblemen To think that I, the son ofthe manse, should be able to help restore the Holy Land to its people. Woodrow Wilson landsonthinking
