[o]f course like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questio… - Woodrow Wilson

There must be, not a balance of power but a community power; not organized rivalries but a organized, common peace.

We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act. It is true that in order to learn men must for a little while withdraw from action, must seek some quiet place of remove from the bustle of affairs, where their thoughts may run clear and tranquil, and the heats of business be for the time put off; but that cloistered refuge is no place to dream in.

Government is not a machine, but a living thing. It falls, not under the theory of the universe, but under the theory of organic life. It is accountable to Darwin, not to Newton.