Woodrow Wilson Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.”

“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.”

“Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.”

“It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.”

“There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.”

“Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.”

“At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.”

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

“Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.”

“My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.”