52 Quotes By Woodrow Wilson


I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.
Woodrow Wilson on respect

The method of political science is the interpretation of life its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
Woodrow Wilson on science

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 on science

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.
Woodrow Wilson on science

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 on society

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
Woodrow Wilson on sports

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Woodrow Wilson on strength

Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
Woodrow Wilson on sympathy

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 on teacher

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
Woodrow Wilson on women

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
Woodrow Wilson on work

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
Woodrow Wilson on caution