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 Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide. Woodrow Wilson politics suicide men I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will. Woodrow Wilson want people Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. Woodrow Wilson games golf sports You have just taken an oath of allegiance to the United States. Of allegiance to whom? Of allegiance to no one, unless it be God. Certainly not of allegiance to those who temporarily represent this great government. You have taken an oath of allegiance to a great ideal, to a great body of principles, to a great hope of the human race. Woodrow Wilson government taken race By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all. Woodrow Wilson radicalism political doe That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too. Woodrow Wilson gladstone statesmen ambition And when they [American soldiers] came, they found fit comrades for their courage and their devotion. ... Joining hands with these, the men of America gave that greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit. Woodrow Wilson men hands america We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back. Woodrow Wilson citizens events months Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country. Woodrow Wilson princeton men country The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached. Woodrow Wilson political community law Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies. Woodrow Wilson government principles war Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up. Woodrow Wilson sap energy tree The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other. Woodrow Wilson profession law It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die. Woodrow Wilson interest men ideas The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life. Woodrow Wilson breathing tasks government A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. Woodrow Wilson groups historical men It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting for their indepdence into a war waged against states fighting for the maintenance and extension of slavery...and the world, it might be hoped, would see it as a moral war, not a political; and the sympathy of nations would begin to run for the North, not for the South. Woodrow Wilson fighting running war Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. Woodrow Wilson wisdom prayer spiritual The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people. Woodrow Wilson inspirational life people Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional Woodrow Wilson liberty president
