Home » Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson 1 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. Woodrow Wilson Day, mind, Opinions Add to Collection 2 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. Woodrow Wilson Men, Country, Satisfy Add to Collection 3 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. Woodrow Wilson Future, Sea, Question Add to Collection 4 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. Woodrow Wilson College, Politician, Real Add to Collection 5 There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States. Woodrow Wilson Life, Business, Politics Add to Collection 6 He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it. Woodrow Wilson Blessed, Forget Add to Collection 7 Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide. Woodrow Wilson Life, College, Past Add to Collection 8 That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic. Woodrow Wilson Man, World, True Add to Collection 9 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. Woodrow Wilson Suicide, Man, Never Add to Collection 10 I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind. Woodrow Wilson King, May, Become Add to Collection 11 A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. Woodrow Wilson Friendship, Teacher Add to Collection 12 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. Woodrow Wilson Politics, Man, Conservative Add to Collection 13 If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it. Woodrow Wilson Science, Progress, Society Add to Collection 14 I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world. Woodrow Wilson Men, Government, Country Add to Collection 15 When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. Woodrow Wilson Happy, Deep, Service Add to Collection 16 As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur. Woodrow Wilson Man, Office, Growing Add to Collection 17 Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign. Woodrow Wilson Light, Experience, Day Add to Collection 18 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. Woodrow Wilson Think, You, Too Much Add to Collection 19 It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. Woodrow Wilson Political, Prosperity, First Add to Collection 20 Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life. Woodrow Wilson Education, Great, Science Add to Collection 21 Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership. Woodrow Wilson History, Writing, Regret Add to Collection 22 I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past. Woodrow Wilson Leadership, Great, Identity Add to Collection 23 The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may. Woodrow Wilson Respect, Past, Speak Add to Collection 24 Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world. Woodrow Wilson History, Great, World Add to Collection 1 2 3 next › last »
