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.
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.
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A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.
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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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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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It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
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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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The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
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The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For… things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
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This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.
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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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A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.
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War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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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.
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The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
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The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
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