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 cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.
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There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
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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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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
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It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
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Men 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.
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We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
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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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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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The 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.
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