“It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.”
History
“Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.”
BusinessAll Quotes by 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.”
Politics“Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.”
Sports“A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.”
Politics“The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.”
Government“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“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“Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.”
Government“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.”
History“If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.”
Government“The method of political science is the interpretation of life its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.”
Science“The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.”
Peace“We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.”
Education“Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.”
Government“Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.”
Leadership“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“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“In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.”
God“Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.”
Sympathy“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