“The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.”
Peace
“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.”
GovernmentAll Quotes by Woodrow Wilson
“A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.”
Politics“I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.”
Respect“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“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“If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.”
Home“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 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“The method of political science is the interpretation of life its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.”
Science“There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.”
Religion“The history of liberty is a history of resistance.”
History“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“If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.”
Government“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“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“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“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.”
Intelligence“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.”
History