Woodrow WilsonOnce lead this people into war, and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will e… ▶371HumanityLife
Woodrow WilsonThe 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. ✨ Constitution… ▶362Politics
Woodrow WilsonTo fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life. ✨ Woodrow Wilson (2015). Wilson, Volume V: C… ▶351Life
Woodrow WilsonOpinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system. ✨ Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1974). The papers of Woodrow Wilso… ▶373Truth
Woodrow WilsonYou must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win. ✨ Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Fou… ▶362Love
Woodrow WilsonThe difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.351Reflection
Woodrow WilsonThe roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty. ✨ Woodrow Wilson (1916). Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from t… ▶374PhilosophyReadingThought
Woodrow WilsonIf you want to make enemies, try to change something. ✨ Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson, p.135, The Miner… ▶363Thought
Woodrow WilsonYou have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving heart I have ever known, and my love, my reverence, my admiration for you, you have increased in one even… ▶341LifeLoveThought
Woodrow WilsonOne cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.375Truth
Woodrow WilsonOnly free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own. ✨ War Message, deli… ▶342Humanity
Woodrow WilsonThe whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man. ✨ Woodrow Wilson (2016). The New Freedom:… ▶342Hope
Woodrow WilsonWe want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call … ▶375Thought
Woodrow WilsonI can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it. … ▶331Life
Woodrow WilsonA fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.321Politics
Woodrow WilsonSometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world. ✨ Address supporting League of Natio… ▶332HumanityThoughtTime
Woodrow WilsonYou 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 h… ▶343HopeLife
Woodrow WilsonI 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 … ▶321HumanityPolitics
Woodrow WilsonWe forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than in running before the crowd; we forget that in the resistance of the minority … ▶376Humanity
Woodrow WilsonThe Civil War created in this country what had never existed before - a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union; it was the rebirth of the Union. ✨ Woo… ▶343PhilosophyReading
Woodrow WilsonThe sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually. ✨ Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1993). The Papers … ▶376Humanity
Woodrow WilsonMy dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness. ✨ Wood… ▶355LifePolitics
Woodrow WilsonThe 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… ▶366HumanityPoliticsTime
Woodrow WilsonThe 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, Ray Stannard Baker… ▶322Love
Woodrow WilsonWar isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely. ✨ Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1980). The Papers of Woodrow Wilson311Humanity
Woodrow WilsonPolitics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. ✨ Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1966). The papers of Woodrow Wils… ▶344Politics
Woodrow WilsonFreedom exists only where the people take care of the government. ✨ Woodrow Wilson (1916). Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader … ▶344HumanityPhilosophyPolitics
Woodrow WilsonIf you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.366Reflection
Woodrow WilsonThe flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great… ▶333HumanityLifePolitics
Woodrow WilsonI am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure. ✨ Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wil… ▶356Reading
