Great Throughts Treasury

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Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, and to set up among the really free and self governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.

Peace |

Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.

Nations | Peace | Right | World |

Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

Action | Justice | Life | Life | Object | Peace | Principles | Purpose | Purpose | Self | Will | World |

Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history. It represents the experiences made by men and women, the experiences of those who do and live under that flag.

Example | Force | Influence | Man | Need | Peace | Right | Will |

Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

It is easier to change the location of a cemetery, than to change the school curriculum.

Authority | Civilization | Nations | Peace | People | Right | Rights | World |

Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.

Man | Peace | Wrong |

Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

Only free people can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.

Equality | Peace |

Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

Peace |

Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

This war, in its inception was a commercial and industrial war. It was not a political war.

Equality | Memory | Peace | Right |

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

Mind | Peace |

Hugh Blair

Adversity, how blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.

Age | Benevolence | Conduct | Evil | Good | Hope | Kindness | Love | Man | Old age | Peace | Respect | Time | Will | Respect | Old |

Tom Hayden, fully Thomas Emmet "Tom" Hayden

Imagine a nineteenth-century Jane Fonda visiting the Oglala Sioux in the Black Hills before the battle at Little Big Horn. Imagine her examining Crazy Horse's arrows or climbing upon Sitting Bull's horse. Such behavior by a well-known actress no doubt would have infuriated Gen. George Armstrong Custer, but what would the rest of us feel today

Hope | Nothing | Peace | Politics | War |

Tom Hayden, fully Thomas Emmet "Tom" Hayden

There is a power to the street that's part of the democratic process when all else has failed,

Peace | War |

Tom Hayden, fully Thomas Emmet "Tom" Hayden

The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI.

Justice | Peace |

Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins

A sense of humor, properly developed, is superior to any religion so far devised.

Contrast | Peace |

William Shakespeare

About the sixth hour; when beasts most graze, birds best peck, and men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper.

God | Peace | Taste | Treason | God |

William Shakespeare

A good heart is the sun and moon, or, rather, the sun, and not the moon; for it shines bright and never changes, but keeps its course truly. King Henry V, Act v, Scene 2

Peace | Sorrow | Story | Will | Woe |

William Shakespeare

All, with one consent, praise new-born gawds, though they are made and moulded of things past; and give to dust, that is a little gilt, more laud than gilt o’erdusted. Henry V, Act iv, Scene 3

Peace |

William Shakespeare

But, alas, to make me a fixèd figure for the time of scorn to point his slow unmoving finger at! Othello, Act iv, Scene 2

Better | Peace |