Woodrow Wilson

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 Wilson

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

— Woodrow Wilson

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Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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

— Woodrow Wilson

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I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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