There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
WOODROW WILSONWe are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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The fewer the desires, the more peace.
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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.
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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
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Government, in it’s last analysis, is organized force.
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There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
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Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists–believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
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A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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