| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 64945 |
| QUOTATION: | A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924), U.S. president. Address to the country (March 4, 1917).
Wilson was speaking of a filibuster in the Senate that was holding up the wartime Shipping Bill. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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