Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson

"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."
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"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."
Woodrow Wilson
"“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”"
Woodrow Wilson
"Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it."
Woodrow Wilson
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something."
Woodrow Wilson
"The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them."
Woodrow Wilson
"The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty."
Woodrow Wilson
"Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt."
Woodrow Wilson
"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."
Woodrow Wilson
"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
"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
"The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy."
Woodrow Wilson
"A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits."
Woodrow Wilson
"A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt."
Woodrow Wilson
"Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them."
Woodrow Wilson
"Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership."
Woodrow Wilson
"You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape."
Woodrow Wilson
"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
"There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath."
Woodrow Wilson
"It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true."
Woodrow Wilson
"The history of liberty is a history of resistance."
Woodrow Wilson
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