Woodrow Wilson
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.Collection: Women
If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.Collection: Government
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.Collection: Pet
The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.Collection: Men
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.Collection: Intelligence
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.Collection: Peace
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.Collection: History
The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.Collection: Science
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.Collection: Friendship
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.Collection: Hope
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.Collection: Experience
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.Collection: History
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.Collection: Religion
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.Collection: Business
Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.Collection: Leadership
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.Collection: History
I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.Collection: Respect
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.Collection: Politics
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.Collection: History
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.Collection: Love
Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.Collection: Sympathy
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.Collection: Government
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.Collection: Politics
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.Collection: Government
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.Collection: Government
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.Collection: Change
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.Collection: Cool
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.Collection: Peace
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.Collection: Sports
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.
Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.
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.
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
The seed of revolution is repression.
Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.
At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.
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.
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.
As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.
Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
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.
By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative', one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary', one who won't go at all.
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.