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Quote by Woodrow Wilson
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into th

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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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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The method of political science is the interpretation of life its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions. – Woodrow Wilson

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I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal. – Abraham Lincoln

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