“Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.”
Sympathy
“The history of liberty is a history of resistance.”
HistoryAll Quotes by Woodrow Wilson
“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“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“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.”
History“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“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“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.”
Intelligence“Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.”
Government“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“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“Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.”
Sports“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“If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.”
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 history of liberty is a history of resistance.”
History“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“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“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 will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.”
Respect