We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
WOODROW WILSONThe way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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Only peace between equals can last.
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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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What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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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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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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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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It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
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The right is more precious than peace.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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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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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 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.
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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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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
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We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
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I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.
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