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.

Quote by Woodrow Wilson

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There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the...

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters,...

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters,...

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am...

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am...

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he...

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he...

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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character...

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the...

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the...

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The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely...

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is...

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is...

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give...

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give...

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Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill...

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The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a...

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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only...

He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions...

He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions...

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the...

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the...

All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring...

All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring...

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.

In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship...

In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship...

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not...

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not...