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 white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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The seed of revolution is repression.
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We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
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To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
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High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.
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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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The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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A radical is one of whom people say ”He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ”doesn’t go far enough.” Then there is the reactionary, ”one who doesn’t go at all.” All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have.
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No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
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We must believe the things We teach our children
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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Big 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.
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I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
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