Woodrow Wilson

“A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“The method of political science is the interpretation of life its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.”

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

“Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.”

“The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.”

“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.”