Quote#Politics & Power
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the…
Quote byWoodrow Wilson · 1856–1924
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The New Freedom (1913), Section II: “What is Progress?”, p. 35.
English (original)
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.
— Woodrow Wilson
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