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.
~ Woodrow Wilson
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.
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 not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
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.
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.
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.
Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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 awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
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.
