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" The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind. "

Woodrow Wilson

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

" America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us. "

" Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. "

" The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may. "

" I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind. "

" 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. "

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

" Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that 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 no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. "

" One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past. "

" 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. "

" When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. "

" Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life. "

" He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it. "

" 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. "

" I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world. "

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

" Tell me what is right and I will fight for 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. "

" The history of liberty is a history of resistance. "

" 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. "

" Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide. "