Woodrow Wilson

I would rather lose in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

Politics is not a game, it is a serious business.

I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world—no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.

The Bible is the one book to which you can go and in which you can find the authentic unadulterated voice of God.

America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

The man who is bigger than his job is the man who makes the job bigger.

We are not here to fear. We are here to hope and to do.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Government, in its last analysis, is organized force.

The greatest force for moral regeneration in the world is the force of example.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our age is that we are not sufficiently aware of it.

The only way to conquer a nation is to make it free.

The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.

No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that in doing his work he is not doing it for himself, but for a larger purpose.

The great curse of modern life is that it is full of noise.

The truth is that we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.

The real difficulty is with the men who do not think.