The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it. Woodrow Wilson More Quotes by Woodrow Wilson More Quotes From Woodrow Wilson From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of history's high noon when nations stand forth full grown and self-governed, the law of coherence and continuity in political development has suffered no serious breach. Woodrow Wilson kings morning father There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality. Woodrow Wilson precious-metal melting-pot compounds Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Woodrow Wilson presidential principles war The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities. Woodrow Wilson accountability government war Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences. Woodrow Wilson giving men thinking There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. Woodrow Wilson presidential fighting men The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds. Woodrow Wilson writing men hands America is the only idealistic nation in the world. Woodrow Wilson presidential america world When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him. Woodrow Wilson leader fire men The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation. Woodrow Wilson our-generation government people There is no indispensable man. Woodrow Wilson presidential jobs men They lived long that have lived well. Woodrow Wilson wells long It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts. Woodrow Wilson fighting heart war The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument. Woodrow Wilson argument cases facts His [the President's] office is anything he has the sagacity and force to make it. Woodrow Wilson political office president Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself to practise law, followed another large body of young men in deciding to abandon it. Woodrow Wilson bars law men Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause arises in the midst of a nation. Men of strenuous minds and high ideals come forward.... The attacks they sustain are more cruel than the collision of arms.... Friends desert and despise them.... They stand alone and oftentimes are made bitter by their isolation.... They are doing nothing less than defy public opinion, and shall they convert it by blows. Yes. Woodrow Wilson leadership blow men Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things.... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind. Woodrow Wilson real leadership struggle The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name.... We must be impartial in thought as well as in actiona nationthat neither sits in judgment upon others nor is disturbed in her own counsels and which keeps herself fit and free to do what is honest and disinterested and truly serviceable for the peace of the world. Woodrow Wilson neutrality united-states names Some of the greatest and most lasting effects of genuine oratory have gone forth from secluded lecture desks into the hearts of quiet groups of students. Woodrow Wilson groups gone heart
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