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.
From Woodrow Wilson
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.
Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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.
If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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