I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past. — 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
A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore… — 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
His [the President's] office is anything he has the sagacity and force to make it. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose.… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I am all kinds of a democrat, so far as I can discover but the root of the whole business is this,… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose. No… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Washington has seldom seen so numerous, so industrious or so insidious a lobby. There is every evidence that money without limit is… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States. — 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
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