Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson

"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow."
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"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow."
Woodrow Wilson
"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, or singly cope with."
Woodrow Wilson
"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
"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
"The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions."
Woodrow Wilson
"There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed."
Woodrow Wilson
"Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose."
Woodrow Wilson
"One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat."
Woodrow Wilson
"I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past."
Woodrow Wilson
"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."
Woodrow Wilson
"No task rightly done is truly private. It is part of the world's work."
Woodrow Wilson
"It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts - for democracy."
Woodrow Wilson
"It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you."
Woodrow Wilson
"I'm a vague conjunctured personality more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles."
Woodrow Wilson
"Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now."
Woodrow Wilson
"1 have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty and business liberty and every other kind of liberty in the phrase that is common in the sporting world "A free field and no favor."
Woodrow Wilson
"The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest no domination. We seek no indemnities for ourselves no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely give. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and freedom of nations can make them."
Woodrow Wilson
"When you come into the presence of a leader of men you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him."
Woodrow Wilson
"One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat."
Woodrow Wilson
"I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow."
Woodrow Wilson
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