Woodrow Wilson Quotes

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.
Woodrow Wilson

Government, Democracy, Special

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Woodrow Wilson

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
Woodrow Wilson

Pet, Home, After

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.
Woodrow Wilson

Motivational, Hope, Yourself

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

Power, History, Government

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
Woodrow Wilson

Leader, Ring, Voices

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
Woodrow Wilson

Great, Men, Government

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

Life, Love, God

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
Woodrow Wilson

Life, Crisis, Friend

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson

Intelligence, Brains, Borrow

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

Equality, Women, Great

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Woodrow Wilson

Politics, Thinks, Mostly

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.
Woodrow Wilson

Men, America, Liberty

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, Friendship, Teacher

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

Love, God, Daily

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.
Woodrow Wilson

Men, Brave, Challenge

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

Experience, Human, Through

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
Woodrow Wilson

Life, Science, Nice

If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.
Woodrow Wilson

Difficult, Worth

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
Woodrow Wilson

History, Liberty, Resistance

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
Woodrow Wilson

Win, Rather, Lose

Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.
Woodrow Wilson

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
Woodrow Wilson

Politics, Someone, Doubt

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
Woodrow Wilson

Love, Liberty, Rich

The seed of revolution is repression.
Woodrow Wilson

Revolution, Seed, Repression

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: December 28, 1856

Died: February 3, 1924

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