Zitat des Tages von Woodrow Wilson:
He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.
If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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 understand and discuss with absolute frankness.
What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.
Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
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 whether he is growing or swelling.
You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.
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.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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.
In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.
Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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.