“Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.”
Sympathy
“There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.”
ReligionAll Quotes by Woodrow Wilson
“I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.”
Respect“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“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“Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.”
Peace“The method of political science is the interpretation of life its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.”
Science“If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.”
Home“A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.”
Politics“Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.”
Leadership“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 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“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“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 world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.”
Peace“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“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“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“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“It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.”
History