Home » Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson Born : _________ Died : -- 1 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 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 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 4 Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide. Woodrow Wilson Life, College, Past Add to Collection 5 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 6 A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. Woodrow Wilson Friendship, Teacher Add to Collection 7 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 8 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 9 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 10 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 11 As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur. Woodrow Wilson Man, Office, Growing Add to Collection 12 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 13 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 14 He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it. Woodrow Wilson Blessed, Forget 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 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 17 Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership. Woodrow Wilson History, Writing, Regret Add to Collection 18 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 19 Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign. Woodrow Wilson Light, Experience, Day Add to Collection 20 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. Woodrow Wilson Man, Office, Growing Add to Collection 21 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. Woodrow Wilson Free, Government, People Add to Collection 22 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 23 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 24 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 1 2 3 next › last »
