No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know Woodrow Wilson More Quotes by Woodrow Wilson More Quotes From Woodrow Wilson We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true. Woodrow Wilson dreamspringlove A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about. Woodrow Wilson yesterdaydoetrying The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause which they did not pretend was peculiarly their own, which they knew was the cause of humanity and mankind. These Americans gave the greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit. Woodrow Wilson fightinguniqueeurope Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it. Woodrow Wilson governmenthistoricalpower War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely. Woodrow Wilson affairnameswar There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations. Woodrow Wilson corporationsplaymen We forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than in running before the crowd; we forget that in the resistance of the minority some of the biggest things in our own history have been accomplished, and the man who looks on the Stars and Stripes and doesn't hold a right to say nay to his neighbor, even if the neighbor is of the larger party, has forgotten the history of his country. Woodrow Wilson starsrunningcountry The world must be made safe for democracy. Woodrow Wilson presidentialdemocracyworld We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world. Woodrow Wilson spiritual-visionpositive-thinkinginspirational America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us... Woodrow Wilson patrioticindividualityamerica Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy. Woodrow Wilson corporationsdemocracybusiness Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety. Woodrow Wilson governmentmeanbelieve One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. Woodrow Wilson patrioticlightinspirational If you've made up your mind you can do something, you're absolutely RIGHT. Woodrow Wilson can-do-somethingmademind A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. Woodrow Wilson politicalmenthinking To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations. Woodrow Wilson veterans-daygratitudecountry America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture. Woodrow Wilson scriptureelementsamerica It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation. Woodrow Wilson armymilitarywar In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. Limits of wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principle there are, upon strict analysis, none. Woodrow Wilson destinyrightsmen If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything. Woodrow Wilson lost-everythinghealthycharacter
