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. – Woodrow Wilson
You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. – Woodrow Wilson
Absolute identity with ones cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership. – Woodrow Wilson
In the Lords Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. – Woodrow Wilson
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lords Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. – Woodrow Wilson
Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them. – 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
I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past. – Woodrow Wilson
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. – 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
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. – Woodrow Wilson
Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt. – Woodrow Wilson
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. – Woodrow Wilson
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
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath. – Woodrow Wilson
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. – Woodrow Wilson
The history of liberty is a history of resistance. – Woodrow Wilson
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
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles. – Woodrow Wilson
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
