We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency - clear disinterested thinking and fearless…

Quote by Woodrow T Wilson

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

When I am travelling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during...

When I am travelling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during...

Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him

Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him

The seed of revolution is repression.

The seed of revolution is repression.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of...

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of...

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken

Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken

The world must be made safe for democracy

The world must be made safe for democracy

The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document: it is a...

The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document: it is a...

No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.

I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was...

I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was...

America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who...

America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who...

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and...

No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and...

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give...

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give...

I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world...

I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world...

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured...

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured...

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed...

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed...

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer...

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer...