"I had rather be defeated in a..." - Quote by Woodrow Wilson

“If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.”

“The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.”

“The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.”

“There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.”

“The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws.”

“They who assert the purest right, and consequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State, commonly have not spent much time accumulating property. The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue; for money comes between a man and his objects, and obtains them for him; and it was certainly no great virtue to obtain it.”

“It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory.”

“And he smote the Balrog upon the mountainside.”

“For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.”