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Politics Quotes by Woodrow Wilson
- Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles.
- I do not want to live under a philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government.... We do not want…
- The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to…
- Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.
- The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.
- Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.
- Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.
- Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.
- A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
- 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.
- A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
- Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
- 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…
- My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to…
- Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the…
- 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…
- Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken
More Politics Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle