Quotes by Woodrow Wilson
He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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.
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
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.
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.
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.
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.
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.
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.
When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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.
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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.
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.
The seed of revolution is repression.
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.
The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
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.
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.
