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America was born a Christian nation.

America was born a Christian nation.

Christian, America, Born

Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.59, NYU Press

The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.

Men, Luxury, Essentials

There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.

Men, Giving, Purpose

Woodrow Wilson (1945). “Woodrow Wilson: Selections for Today”

...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.

Marine, America, World

No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.

Christian, Brother, Thinking

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Men, Thinking, Political

All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.

Patience, Waiting, Be Patient

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Inspirational, Teamwork, Power

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1978). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

Grandmother, Political, Doubt

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.

Inspirational, Sports, Dream

"By the Way" by Preston Williams, Xulon Press, Virginia (pp. 38-39), 2002.

There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.

Men, Play, Corporations

Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: the essential political writings”

Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

Believe, Mean, Government

Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.

Thinking, Acting, Doe

Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.

Responsibility, Men, Grows

Woodrow Wilson (1929). “When a Man Comes to Himself”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.

Men, President, Pay

You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

Spiritual Vision, Achievement, World Vision

Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.15, The Minerva Group, Inc.

Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.

Responsibility, Opportunity

I 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 to criticize their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism.

Country, Regret, Patriotic

Woodrow Wilson (1983). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.

Real, Men, Presidential

Speech accepting Democratic presidential nomination, Seagirt, N.J., 7 Aug. 1912

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.

Running, War, Fighting

Woodrow Wilson (1903). “A History of The American Poeple”

The fewer the desires, the more peace.

Desire, Fewer

If you've made up your mind you can do something, you're absolutely RIGHT.

Mind, Made, Can Do Something

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

Love, Dream, Spring

"By the Way" by Preston Williams, Xulon Press, Virginia (pp. 38-39), 2002.

The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.

Forget

Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1981). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

Let it be your pride to show all men everywhere not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men you are.

Military, Pride, Men

Woodrow Wilson (1918). “State Papers and Addresses”

Born: December 28, 1856 - February 3, 1924
Occupation: 28th U.S. President

Quotes: 459

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