"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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Government
More From Woodrow Wilson
- "Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach."
- "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."
- "If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it."
More In Government
- "Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country."― Franklin D. Roosevelt
- "I’ve got a new invention. It’s a revolving bowl for tired goldfish."― Lefty Gomez
- "But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they’ve expressed it tonight: standing on principle, checking Washington’s power and leading the drive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable government."― John Boehner