Woodrow Wilson Quotes
Dr. Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 45th state Governor of New Jersey (1911-1913) and later the 28th President of the United States (1913-1921). He was the second Democrat to serve two consecutive terms in the White House, after Andrew Jackson.
(1856 - 1924)
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
[Politics]
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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A friend of mine says that 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 swelling or growing.
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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.
[Heredity]
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Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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All things come to him who waits- provided he knows what he is waiting for.
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
[America]
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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.
[America]
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America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.
[America]
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As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.
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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.
[Crisis]
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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.
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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.
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.
[Idealism]
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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.
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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
[Family]
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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.
[Conservatism]
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