What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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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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I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.
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The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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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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Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.
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If you’ve made up your mind you can do something, you’re absolutely RIGHT.
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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
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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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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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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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