No one set of interests can safely be suffered to dominate the country. - Woodrow Wilson

Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work.

Once you lead [the] people into war, they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.
The spirit of ruthless brutality will enter every fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street.

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.