Quotes by Woodrow Wilson

“If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it; what we have to determine now is whether we are big enough, whether we are men enou...”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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,...”

“The history of liberty is a history of resistance.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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