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The Literature Page Showing quotations 1 to 17 of 17 total ...it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you. Woodrow Wilson A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits. Woodrow Wilson America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses. Woodrow Wilson I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. Woodrow Wilson 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. Woodrow Wilson No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence. Woodrow WilsonThe flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history. Woodrow Wilson The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. Woodrow Wilson You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand. Woodrow WilsonThe world must be made safe for democracy. Woodrow Wilson, April 2, 1917We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction. There are many voices of counsel, but few voices of vision; there is much excitement and feverish activity, but little concert of thoughtful purpose. We are distressed by our own ungoverned, undirected energies and do many things, but nothing long. It is our duty to find ourselves. Woodrow Wilson, Baccalaureate address, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, June 9, 1907 Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. Woodrow Wilson, in John Dos Passos, "Mr Wilson's War" I can imagine no greater disservice to the county 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 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. Woodrow Wilson, Letter to Arthur Brisbane, April 25, 1917Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation. Woodrow Wilson, letter to Mary A. Hulbert, September 21, 1913 No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation. Woodrow Wilson, Speech in New York, Apr. 20, 1915There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right. Woodrow Wilson, Speech in Philadelphia, May 10, 1915The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. Woodrow Wilson, Speech to Congress, Apr. 2, 1917
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