All WOODROW WILSON Quotes about “Affairs”

“There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.”
“In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight.”
“War isnâ€™t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.”
“The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint.”
“There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist.”
“The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For... things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.”
“We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.... We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia.”
“At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.”
“It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.”

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