Woodrow Wilson quotes

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

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.

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.

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

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.

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.

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.

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

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.

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.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

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.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

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.

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.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

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.

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

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.