“It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.”
History
“A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.”
PoliticsAll Quotes by Woodrow Wilson
“The history of liberty is a history of resistance.”
History“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“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“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“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.”
Intelligence“Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.”
Sports“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“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“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“Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.”
Sympathy“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“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“The method of political science is the interpretation of life its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.”
Science“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 world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.”
Peace“If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.”
Government“If you want to make enemies, try to change something.”
Change