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.
WOODROW WILSONThe masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.
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The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
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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.
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I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
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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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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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