Woodrow Wilson Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Selfish, Sacrifice, Political

  Speech to Congress, 2 April 1917, in 'Selected Addresses' (1918) p. 195

• Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of life, not of mechanics; it must develop. All that progressives ask or desire is permission-in an era when 'development,' 'evolution,' is the scientific word-to interpret the Constitution according to the Darwinian principle; all they ask is recognition of the fact that a nation is a living thing and not a machine.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Law, Practice, Political

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.121, Lexington Books

• The fewer the desires, the more peace.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Desire, Fewer

• Such a mind we must desire to see in a woman,--a mind that stirs without irritating you, that arouses but does not belabour, amuses and yet subtly instructs.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Women, Mind, Desire

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