A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
There is no indispensable man. The government will not collapse and go to pieces if any one of the gentlemen who are… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I have sometimes heard men say politics must have nothing to do with business, and I have often wished that business had… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I do not want to live under a philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government… We… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist,… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“It is ... particularly true of constitutional government that its atmosphere is opinion … It does not remain fixed in any unchanging… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For...… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“A politician, a man engaged in party contests, must be an opportunist. Let us give up saying that word as if it… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I am a most unhappy man. I accidentally ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
[We are] no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“We can have no sympathy with those who seek the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambitions.” — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The allied nations with the fullest concurrence of our government and people are agreed that in Palestine shall be laid the foundations… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“There is more of a nation's politics to be got out of its poetry than out of all its systematic writers on… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days;… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
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