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.
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.
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.
I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.
He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.
Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
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.
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.
