"A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.“

-Woodrow Wilson

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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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"We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study."

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"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow."

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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 man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it."

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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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