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If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him ‘pop.’ Don’t tell him ‘rock’n’roll’ or they won’t even let you in the hotel.
We like this kind of music. Jazz is strictly for stay-at-homes.
Without Elvis none of us could have made it.
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal – to discover and maintain liberty among men.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
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.
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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.
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.
If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.
If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.
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.
Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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.
Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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 history of liberty is a history of resistance.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
The seed of revolution is repression.
There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.
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.”
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.
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
윌슨
강을 거슬러 헤엄치는 자가 강물의 세기를 안다.
열중하는 마음이 없다면 이 세상에 진보란 있을 수 없다.
후쿠자와 유키치
인생은 연극과 같다. 훌륭한 배우가 걸인도 되고, 삼류배우가 대감이 될 수도 있다. 어쨌든 지나치게 인생을 거북하게 생각하지 말고 솔직하게 어떤 일이든지 열심히 하라.
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