"America is the place where you cannot..." - Quote by Woodrow Wilson
America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.
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“To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.”
“Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.”
“What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.”
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“America has not been a story or a byword. That small community of Pilgrims prospered and, driven by the dreams and, yes, by the ideas of the Founding Fathers, went on to become a beacon to all the oppressed and poor of the world.”
“I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust.”
“I think all Americans should be hopeful, and try to be optimistic.”
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“Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.”
“I may err in my measures, but never shall deflect from the intention to fortify the public liberty by every possible means, and to put it out of the power of the few to riot on the labors of the many.”
“Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.”