Woodrow Wilson

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.

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If a man is a fool, the best thing is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

Indeed it is quite evident that if federal power be not altogether irresponsible, it is the federal judiciary which is the only effectual balance-wheel of the whole system.

The seed of revolution is repression.

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

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

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.

[o]f course like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised.

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

Once you lead [the] people into war, they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.
The spirit of ruthless brutality will enter every fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street.

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.

"If that was the American system, then drastic changes would be necessary in it. For Congressional Government, which Wilson described fearlessly and faithfully in his book, was intolerably bad government. Wilson never doubted that for good government there must be a strong Executive. If the office of President had fallen irrevocably from that "first estate of dignity"[9] which it had among the Founding Fathers, then the remedy for the radical defect of the system would lie in making a strong executive out of a responsible cabinet."

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.

We should not only use all the brains we have but all that we can borrow.