"It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs."
- Woodrow Wilson
"How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?"
"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..."
"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."
"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. But we shall not be poor if we love liberty, because the nation that loves libert..."
"A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we ..."
"No man can rationally live, worship, or love his neighbour on an empty stomach."
"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it."
"We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it."
"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience."