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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.

Woodrow Wilson

Man

Office

Washington

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.

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.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Woodrow Wilson

Strength

Man

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

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.

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

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

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

Woodrow Wilson

History

Liberty

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

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

Woodrow Wilson

Men

Challenge

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

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

Woodrow Wilson

Man

Office

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.