Famous quotes by Politicians

"The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"Tell me what is right, and I will fight for it"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"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"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"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, Politician

"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"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"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"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"He is not a true man of the world, who knows only the present fashions of it"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"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"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"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"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"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, Politician

"Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that 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"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"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"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"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"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"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"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

"We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done"

Barbara Jordan, Politician

"Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans"

Barbara Jordan, Politician

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