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The New Freedom quotes

Woodrow Wilson

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“The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.” Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom
“If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it; what we have to determine now is whether we are big enough, whether we are men enough, whether we are free enough, to take...” Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom
“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.” Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom
“So, our honest politicians and our honorable corporation heads owe it to their reputations to bring their activities out into the open.” Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom
“The truth is, we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.” Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom
“The trouble with the theory is that government is not a machine, but a living thing.” Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom
“I believe, for one, that you cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil which is not native to it.” Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom
“Every country is renewed out of the ranks of the unknown, not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.” Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom
“In most parts of our country men work, not for themselves, not as partners in the old way in which they used to work, but generally as employees,—in a higher or lower grade,—of great corporations.” Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom
“The world has been going on. The world has a habit of going on. The world has a habit of leaving those behind who won't go with it.” Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom

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