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.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
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We grow by our dreams.
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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 seed of revolution is repression.
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit.
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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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It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.
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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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To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.
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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
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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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The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.
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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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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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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
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We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them see finer things than they had seen before, to get rid of the things that divide and to make sure of the things that unite.
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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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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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It’s harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
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We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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