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 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 WILSONThere 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.
WOODROW WILSONWe have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
WOODROW WILSONThere must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
WOODROW WILSONBig 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.
WOODROW WILSONAny 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.
WOODROW WILSONOne cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
WOODROW WILSONWe 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.
WOODROW WILSONProgressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
WOODROW WILSONWhen you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
WOODROW WILSONThe sum of the whole matter is this – our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
WOODROW WILSONRemember 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.
WOODROW WILSONTo do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
WOODROW WILSONWe must believe the things We teach our children
WOODROW WILSONWe came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
WOODROW WILSONMen 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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