Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Woodrow Wilson Quotes Click here for Woodrow Wilson books Woodrow Wilson: Profiles in Power "By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who will not go at all." "Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” “A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.” "I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.” “There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.” “We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.” "The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation." "The seed of revolution is repression." “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.” “I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.” "Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people” "The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document: it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age” "You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American.” "We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers." "The object of education is not
merely to draw out the powers of the individual mind: it is rather its right
object to draw all minds to a proper adjustment to the physical and social world
in which they are to have their life and their development: to enlighten,
strengthen and make fit." "Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation." "No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation." "The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history." "Sometimes 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." "The great malady of public life is cowardice. Most men are not untrue, but they are afraid. Most of the errors of public life, if my observation is to be trusted, come not because men are morally bad, but because they are afraid of somebody. God knows why they should be: it is generally shadows they are afraid of." "The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty." |
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