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

— Woodrow Wilson

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The success of a party means little except when the Nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose.

No country can afford to have its prosperity originated by a small controlling class.

The New Freedom (1913)

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American.

You deal in the raw material of opinion, and, if my convictions have any validity, opinion ultimately governs the world.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

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