“There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.”
Religion
“A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.”
PoliticsAll Quotes by Woodrow Wilson
“If you want to make enemies, try to change something.”
Change“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“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 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“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“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“It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.”
History“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“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.”
History“Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.”
Sympathy“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“Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.”
Leadership“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 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“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“A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.”
Politics“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