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 WILSONIt is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
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Any 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.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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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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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
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Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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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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Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
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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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The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
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There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
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Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.
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Power consists in one’s capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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