We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
You are not here merely to making 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.
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 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.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.
Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.
It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.
How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?
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.
A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
No man can rationally live, worship, or love his neighbour on an empty stomach.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
Friendship Quote of the Week:”Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together”…Woodrow Wilson, U.S. President and World Leader
The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over but when the whole man has come over heart and thought and all the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.
The way to stop financial “joy-riding” is to arrest the chauffeur not the automobile.
If you think about what you ought to do for other people your character will take care of itself.
To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
If you want to make enemies try to change something.
I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
All things come to him who waits- provided he knows what he is waiting for.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
A friend of mine says that 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 swelling or growing.
No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States but I never saw the Government of the United States.
Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.
A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
When you come into the presence of a leader of men you know that you have come into the presence of fire – that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man – that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him.
1 have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty and business liberty and every other kind of liberty in the phrase that is common in the sporting world “A free field and no favor.”
Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.
I’m a vague conjunctured personality more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.
No task rightly done is truly private. It is part of the world’s work.
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.
I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
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.
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.
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.
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
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.
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.
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.
Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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.
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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.
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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.