“There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.”
Religion
“A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.”
GovernmentAll Quotes by Woodrow Wilson
“If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.”
Home“Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.”
Government“Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.”
Sympathy“The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.”
Peace“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”
Hope“I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.”
Friendship“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.”
History“The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.”
Future“The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.”
Government“The history of liberty is a history of resistance.”
History“You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.”
Experience“It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.”
History“There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.”
History“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.”
Politics“My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.”
Business“A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.”
Politics“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.”
Intelligence“The method of political science is the interpretation of life its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.”
Science“A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.”
Government