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.
Woodrow Wilson Connected to the Carolinas
Source
“What is Pan-Americanism?”, Address to Pan American Scientific Congress (6 January 1916)
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- 1916
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