"This little world, this little state, this..." - Quote by Woodrow Wilson

“America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.”

“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.”

“As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.”

“We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all maters of general concern act as a nation, which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support. If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it.”

“Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.”

“Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.”

“What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?[Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]”

“I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action.”

“States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.”