Woodrow Wilson

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

No man can rationally live, worship, or love his neighbour on an empty stomach.

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.

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. But we shall not be poor if we love liberty, because the nation that loves liberty truly sets every man free to do his best and be his best.

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.

The immortality of Thomas Jefferson does not lie in any one of his achievements, or in the series of his achievements, but in his attitude towards mankind and the conception which he sought to realize in action of the service owed by America to the rest of the world...Thomas Jefferson was a great leader of men because he understood and interpreted the spirits of men.

How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?