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Democracy Quotes by Woodrow Wilson
- I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
- The world must be made safe for democracy.
- Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
- The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.
- In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of…
- ...to make the world safe for democracy.
- The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends…
- The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
- An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy
- 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…
- That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
- My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.
- The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
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