Jefferson's Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
[We are] no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
We are expected to put the utmost energy, of every power that we have, into the service of our fellow men, never… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Man is much more than a 'rational being' and lives more by sympathies and impressions than by conclusions. It darkens his eyes… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The literary gift is a very dangerous gift to possess if you are not telling the truth, and I would a great… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Be militant! Be an organization that is going to do things! If you can find older men who will give you countenance… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
War is only a sort of dramatic representation, a sort of dramatic symbol of a thousand forms of duty. I fancy that… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
My hope is ... that we may recover ... something of a renewal of that vision of the law with which men… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
And when they [American soldiers] came, they found fit comrades for their courage and their devotion. ... Joining hands with these, the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know that you have come into the presence of fire… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
...I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Your enlightenment depends on the company you keep. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possessed… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I am all kinds of a democrat, so far as I can discover but the root of the whole business is this,… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
May it not suffice for me to say ... that of course like every other man of intelligence and education I do… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days;… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share
There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share
I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share
Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share
...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share
The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share
Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share
The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share
When I think of the flag… I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice, and stripes… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share