The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life.
Woodrow WilsonIt would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.
Woodrow WilsonNo man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
Woodrow WilsonNo man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
Woodrow WilsonNo peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.
Woodrow Wilson