[<nowiki/>Reconstruction was detestable] not because the Republican Party was dreaded but because the dominance of an ignorant and inferior race was … - Woodrow Wilson

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals.

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.