Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
— Woodrow Wilson
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
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.
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.
America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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.
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
