I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy.... So I feel tonight like the man who is lodging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey and that in time, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey’s end like men with a quiet conscience.
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
The method of political science ... is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)