There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
From Woodrow Wilson
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.
By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative', one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary', one who won't go at all.
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
The seed of revolution is repression.
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.
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
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