(122 quotes found)
“There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.”
Woodrow T. Wilson
“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.”
“No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.”
“The history of liberty is a history of resistance.”
“Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, 3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now.'”
“The thing to do is to supply light and not heat”
“Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.”
“The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless”
“We grow by our dreams.”
“I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it”
