Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1458 |
| AUTHOR: | Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) |
| QUOTATION: | When I resist, therefore, when I as a Democrat resist the concentration of power, I am resisting the processes of death, because the concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human initiative, and, therefore of human energy. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | This speech was delivered to the Woodrow Wilson Workingmen’s League “dollar dinner,” at the Yorkville Casino. |
| SUBJECTS: | Power |