Woodrow Wilson

Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.

Woodrow Wilson

Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.

Woodrow Wilson

The literary gift is a very dangerous gift to possess if you are not telling the truth, and I would a great deal rather, for my part, have a man stumble in his speech than to feel he was so exceedingly smooth that he had better be watched both day and night.

Woodrow Wilson

The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.

Woodrow Wilson

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

Woodrow Wilson

The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint.

Woodrow Wilson

The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Woodrow Wilson

There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.

Woodrow Wilson

We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.

Woodrow Wilson