America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.
Woodrow Wilson Quotes
One of the noblest sentences ever uttered was uttered by Mr. Garfield before he became President. He was a member of Congress, as I remember it, at the time of Lincoln’s assassination. He was at the old Fifth Avenue Hotel and they begged him to go out and say something to the people. He went […]
I am not one of those who believe that a great army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.
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 action along the right lines of thought.
Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.
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.
The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing is to supply light and not heat.
