Woodrow Wilson

“Every man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.”

“I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.”

“If you want to make enemies, try to change something.”

“If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next.”

“It is not… too true that capitalists have often seemed to regard the men whom they used as mere instruments of profit, whose physical and mental powers it was legitimate to exploit with as slight cost to themselves as possible, either of money or of sympathy?”

“The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.”

“The beauty of democracy is that you never can tell when a youngster is born what he is going to do with [his life].”   [in a Dec. 10, 1915 speech in Columbus, OH]

“The man with power but without conscience, could, with an eloquent tongue… put this whole country into a flame.”

“We are all citizens of the world; and the tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.”

“When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.”