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" Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling. "

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" Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world. "

Woodrow Wilson

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" Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. "

" You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape. "

" We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study. "

" Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles. "

" Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life. "

" A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. "

" A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. "

" At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving. "

" The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions. "

" So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus. "

Woodrow Wilson

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" I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something. "

" Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign. "

" When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. "

" Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership. "

" In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. "

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

" America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses. "

" Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. "

" Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. "

" There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States. "

" If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing. "

" The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. "

" Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. "

" The seed of revolution is repression. "

" Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt. "

" I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world. "

" As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur. "

Woodrow Wilson

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" I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. "

" What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind. "