Woodrow Wilson

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.

The seed of revolution is repression.

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.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

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.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

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.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.