Woodrow Wilson Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Power, Government, Historical

  "The Political Thought of Woodrow Wilson".

• Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Grandmother, Political, Doubt

  Woodrow Wilson (1986). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

• A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Grandmother, Political, Doubt

• A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Thinking, Political

• The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Long, Development

• 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.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Teacher, Teaching, Long

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1981). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

• Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Luxury, Political, Politics

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.224, Lexington Books

• There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Blessed, Mean, Political

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1979). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

• 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 a benevolent government. We want a free and a just government.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Taken, Government, Care

• If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Thinking, Political, Politics

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1978). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

• By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Political, Doe, Radicalism

  Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence”, Best Books

• Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Political, Campaigns, Politics

  Woodrow Wilson (1966). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

• Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Procrastination, Done, Politics

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1983). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

• Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Suicide, Men, Political

  Letter to Bernard Baruch, August 19, 1916.

• Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Suicide, Men, Politics

• 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

  Progress Of Society, Political, Lines

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.97, The Minerva Group, Inc.

• The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose. No one can mistake the purpose for which the nation now seeks to use the Democratic party. It seeks to use it to interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Party, Mean, Views

  "Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president".

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