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 man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one’s mind with other men’s thoughts is to have no thoughts of one’s own.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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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’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
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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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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
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Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the … heart and spirit of men who resist power?
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Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.
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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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When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
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At every crisis in one’s life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.
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