Woodrow Wilson

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

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

We shall fight for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.

I am ready.

Every man who takes office . . . either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

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.

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

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