“If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.”
Home
“If you want to make enemies, try to change something.”
ChangeAll Quotes by Woodrow Wilson
“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.”
Intelligence“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“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“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“The method of political science is the interpretation of life its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.”
Science“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 no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.”
Religion“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“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“The history of liberty is a history of resistance.”
History“Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.”
Sympathy“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“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“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 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“One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.”
Cool“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