The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people. Woodrow Wilson More Quotes by Woodrow Wilson More Quotes From Woodrow Wilson Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. Woodrow Wilson confidentialagentsselfishness Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever. Woodrow Wilson leaguerunningmen The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible. Woodrow Wilson gentlemanusefather The example of America must be the example not merely of peace because it will not fight, but of peace because peace is the healing and elevating influence of the world, and strife is not. There is such a thing as a 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 fightinghealingpeace The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators. Woodrow Wilson oratoryspeechfoxes Today, supremely, it behooves us to remember that a nation shall be saved by the power that sleeps in its own bosom; or by none; shall be renewed in hope, in confidence, in strength by waters welling up from its own sweet, perennial springs. Not from above; not by patronage of its aristocrats. The flower does not bear the root, but the root the flower. Woodrow Wilson freedomspringsweet If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play ison the boards and the audience in the seats.... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards. Woodrow Wilson leadershipplaymen The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may. Woodrow Wilson purposemenworld You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it. Woodrow Wilson libertytearstree I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism. Woodrow Wilson patrioticregretcountry No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work. Woodrow Wilson tasksdonework The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender. Woodrow Wilson educationalmenlying There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality. Woodrow Wilson sentimentalitysubtlemoral The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens . Nothing chills nonsense like exposure to the air. Woodrow Wilson citizenslawair Such a mind we must desire to see in a woman,--a mind that stirs without irritating you, that arouses but does not belabour, amuses and yet subtly instructs. Woodrow Wilson womenminddesire The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it. Woodrow Wilson littlesmenworld Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself. Woodrow Wilson accomplish-nothingexcessluxury No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise. Woodrow Wilson hopeinspirationallife My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together. Woodrow Wilson democracytogethertwo Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible. Woodrow Wilson reformrevolutiondoe
