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 flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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There 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.
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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
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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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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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A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
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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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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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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
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I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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