"I have rather a strange objection to..." - Quote by Woodrow Wilson
I have rather a strange objection to talking from the back platform of a train.... It changes too often. It moves around and shifts its ground too often. I like a platform that stays put.
More by Woodrow Wilson
“The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.”
“It must be a peace without victory... Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last.”
“When the representatives of "Big Business" think of the people, they do not include themselves.”
More on Stability
“What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.”
“Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist.”
“Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.”
More on Change
“There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair.”
“You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude”
“It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!”