"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 "The history of liberty is a history of resistance." "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." "The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions." More In History "That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support."― Lysander Spooner "I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral."― John Burroughs "Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall."― Paul Harris