Woodrow Wilson

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

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 has been set up above the forms of democracy.