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 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 5 A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. Woodrow Wilson Friendship, Teacher Add to Collection 6 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 7 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 8 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 9 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 10 As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur. Woodrow Wilson Man, Office, Growing Add to Collection 11 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 12 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 13 He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it. Woodrow Wilson Blessed, Forget Add to Collection 14 Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide. Woodrow Wilson Life, College, Past Add to Collection 15 That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic. Woodrow Wilson Man, World, True Add to Collection 16 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 17 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 18 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 19 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. Woodrow Wilson Men, World, Consequences Add to Collection 20 My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together. Woodrow Wilson World, American Add to Collection 21 Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. Woodrow Wilson History, Freedom, Power Add to Collection 22 So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus. Woodrow Wilson Together, Democracy Add to Collection 23 What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind. Woodrow Wilson Sports, Golf, Purpose Add to Collection 24 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. Woodrow Wilson Circus, Go, Far Add to Collection 1 2 3 next › last »
