The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
WOODROW WILSONThe government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.
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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
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We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.
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The right is more precious than peace.
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Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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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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The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need.
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