Woodrow Wilson

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.

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

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

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.

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

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.

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.

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.