“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
“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
“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“The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.”
Peace“If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.”
Home“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“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“A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.”
Politics“Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.”
Sports“Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.”
Government“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“I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.”
Respect“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“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.”
Business“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“There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.”
Equality“The history of liberty is a history of resistance.”
History“Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.”
Leadership“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