"Government is not a warfare of interests...." - Quote by Woodrow Wilson

“It is easier to move a cemetery than to change a curriculum.”

“So far as the colleges go, the side-shows have swallowed up the circus, and we don't know what is going on in the main tent: and I don't want to continue as ringmaster under those conditions.”

“What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.”

“It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt.”

“The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.”

“I'm proud of having been one of the first to recognize that states and the federal government have a duty to protect our natural resources from the damaging effects of pollution that can accompany industrial development.”

“The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government.”

“Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.”

“In truth I care little about any party's politics—the man behind it is the important thing.”