Woodrow Wilson

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.

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.

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

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

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.

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.

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.

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

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 have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

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.

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.

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

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

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