The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.
Woodrow Wilson
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- Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
- My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.
- If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
- One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
- We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.