When I am travelling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.

Quote by Woodrow T Wilson

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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is...

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is...

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find...

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find...

Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken

Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken

The seed of revolution is repression.

The seed of revolution is repression.

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers

America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who...

America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who...

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that...

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that...

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich...

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich...

The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless

The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless

In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the...

In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the...

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search...

We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search...

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of...

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of...

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the...

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the...

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half...

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half...

Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him

Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Necessity makes laws, but does not obey them

Necessity makes laws, but does not obey them

No law is quite appropriate for all

No law is quite appropriate for all

The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish...

The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish...