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 WILSONA man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.
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There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.
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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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The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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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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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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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
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The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
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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 seed of revolution is repression.
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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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Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.
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No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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