You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. – Woodrow Wilson
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles. – Woodrow Wilson
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. – Woodrow Wilson
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath. – Woodrow Wilson
Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony. – Susan Sontag