Woodrow Wilson

“The English race , consequently, has long and successfully studied the art of curbing executive power to the constant neglect of the art of perfecting executive methods. It has exercised itself much more in controlling than in energizing government, It has been more concerned to render government just and moderate than to make it facile, well”

“The principles on which to base a science of administration for America, must be principles which have democratic policy very much at heart.”

“Like a lusty child, government with us has expanded in nature and grown great in stature, but has also become awkward in movement... English and American political history has been a history, not of administrative development, but of legislative oversight”

“Administration is the most obvious part of government; it is government in action; it is the executive, the operative, the most visible side of government, and is of course as old as government itself.”

“It is getting to be harder to run a constitution than to frame one.”

“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 great 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. As quoted by Thomas A. Bruno in Take your dreams and Run (South Plainfield: Bridge, 1984), p. 2”

“Socialism and Democracy,”

“The Senate of the United States has been both extravagantly praised and unreasonably disparaged, according to the predisposition and temper of its various critics... The truth is, in this case as in so many others, something quite commonplace and practical. The Senate is just what the mode of its election and the conditions of public life in this country make it. Congressional Government, A Study in American Politics (1885; republished 1981), chapter 4, p. 135”

“Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee”

“I yield to no one precedence in love for the South . But because I love the South, I rejoice in the failure of the Confederacy . Essay on John Bright , Virginia University Magazine , 19:354”