What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
WOODROW WILSONBig business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able. No course of my choosing or of their (nations at war) will lead to war. War can come only by the wilful acts and aggressions of others.
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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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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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I do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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The right is more precious than peace.
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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