"It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true." ― Woodrow Wilson Topic(s): History More From Woodrow Wilson "Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose." "I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past." "A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible." More In History "If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside."― James Buchan "One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history."― Albert Schweitzer "If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade."― Tom Peters