The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
WOODROW WILSONThe great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
WOODROW WILSONDemocracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
WOODROW WILSONThere’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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.
WOODROW WILSONI have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
WOODROW WILSONThe roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
WOODROW WILSONIt’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
WOODROW WILSONMen are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
WOODROW WILSONLiberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
WOODROW WILSONThe man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
WOODROW WILSONMen grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
WOODROW WILSONI am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
WOODROW WILSONTo conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
WOODROW WILSONAmerica cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
WOODROW WILSONA fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
WOODROW WILSONWhen men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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