Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power?
Woodrow WilsonAmerica is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us...
Woodrow WilsonWhen I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
Woodrow WilsonThe 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 Wilson