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> [The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/woodrow-wilson/the-commands-of-democracy-are-as-imperative-as-its-privileges-and/)

[Woodrow Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/woodrow-wilson/)

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> [I am a most unhappy man. I accidentally ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit. Our government is no longer based on the freedom of opinion, nor on the conviction and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/woodrow-wilson/i-am-a-most-unhappy-man-i-accidentally-ruined-my-country-a-great/)

[Woodrow Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/woodrow-wilson/)

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## Other authors on Compulsion

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- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-ludwig-von-mises-61872.jpg) Ludwig von Mises 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/compulsion/ludwig-von-mises/)
- [Martina Boone 8 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/compulsion/martina-boone/)
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- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-joan-didion-50171.jpg) Joan Didion 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/compulsion/joan-didion/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-eckhart-tolle-31242.jpg) Eckhart Tolle 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/compulsion/eckhart-tolle/)

## More by Woodrow Wilson

> [If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/woodrow-wilson/if-i-am-to-speak-ten-minutes-i-need-a-week-for-preparation-if-fifteen/)

[Woodrow Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/woodrow-wilson/)

> [There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/woodrow-wilson/there-is-here-a-great-melting-pot-in-which-we-must-compound-a/)

[Woodrow Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/woodrow-wilson/)

> [One cannot pay the price of self-respect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/woodrow-wilson/one-cannot-pay-the-price-of-self-respect/)

[Woodrow Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/woodrow-wilson/)

> [I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/woodrow-wilson/i-would-rather-lose-in-a-cause-that-will-some-day-win-than-win-in-a/)

[Woodrow Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/woodrow-wilson/)

> [I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/woodrow-wilson/i-have-received-delegations-of-working-men-who-apparently-speaking/)

[Woodrow Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/woodrow-wilson/)

> [Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/woodrow-wilson/absolute-identity-with-one-s-cause-is-the-first-and-great-condition/)

[Woodrow Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/woodrow-wilson/)

> [America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/woodrow-wilson/america-cannot-be-an-ostrich-with-its-head-in-the-sand/)

[Woodrow Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/woodrow-wilson/)

> [...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/woodrow-wilson/we-are-intensely-proud-of-their-noble-record-and-are-glad-to-have-had/)

[Woodrow Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/woodrow-wilson/)

> [ The facts of the case will always have the better of \[an\] argument. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/woodrow-wilson/the-facts-of-the-case-will-always-have-the-better-of-an-argument/)

[Woodrow Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/woodrow-wilson/)

> [The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/woodrow-wilson/the-greatest-embarrassment-of-my-political-career-has-been-that/)

[Woodrow Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/woodrow-wilson/)

> [Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/woodrow-wilson/some-americans-need-hyphens-in-their-names-because-only-part-of-them/)

[Woodrow Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/woodrow-wilson/)

> [The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/woodrow-wilson/the-history-of-liberty-is-the-history-of-limitations-on-the-power-of/)

[Woodrow Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/woodrow-wilson/)

> [When I think of the flag… I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice, and stripes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/woodrow-wilson/when-i-think-of-the-flag-i-see-alternate-strips-of-parchment-upon/)

[Woodrow Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/woodrow-wilson/)

> [If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/woodrow-wilson/if-i-am-to-speak-ten-minutes-i-need-a-week-for-preparation-if-an-hour/)

[Woodrow Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/woodrow-wilson/)

> [Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/woodrow-wilson/energy-in-a-nation-is-like-sap-in-a-tree-it-rises-from-bottom-up/)

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