QUOTES

 This week in the "Quotes" edition, I offer some from Woodrow Wilson.  He held the highest office in the land from 1913 to 1921.  He shepherded our country through World War I.  Afterward, he took an  instrumental part in the Treaty of Versailles which ended the war and was the primary architect of the League of Nations.  The U.S. never joined that group and it fell apart.  

"Nothing is easier than to falsify the past."

"A great nation is controlled by its system of credit.  Our system of credit is privately concentrated.  The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men who, even if their actions be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom."  (on our banking system)

"It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting for their independence to a war against states fighting for the maintenance and extension of slavery, by making some open move for emancipation as the real motive of the struggle."  (on the Civil War)

"Liberty is its own reward."

"I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty."

"I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow."

"There is a price too great to pay for peace and that price can be put into one word.  One cannot pay the price of self-respect."

"If I am asked to speak for ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if 15 minutes three days, if half an hour two days, if an hour, I am ready now."

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