Frasi di Woodrow Wilson
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Thomas Woodrow Wilson è stato un politico statunitense.

È stato il 28º presidente degli Stati Uniti , mentre in precedenza fu governatore dello stato del New Jersey; anche uomo accademico, ricoprì la carica di presidente dell'Università di Princeton. Divenne il secondo presidente degli Stati Uniti del Partito Democratico, dopo Andrew Jackson, a essere rieletto per un secondo mandato. Nel 1919 gli venne assegnato il Premio Nobel per la pace.

✵ 28. Dicembre 1856 – 3. Febbraio 1924   •   Altri nomi Томас Вудро Вильсон
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“L'America non può essere come uno struzzo che nasconde la testa sotto la sabbia.”

dal discorso di Des Moines, Iowa, 1 febbraio 1916

“La sistemazione delle frontiere dell'Italia sarà fatta secondo le linee di nazionalità chiaramente riconoscibili.”

nono dei "Quattordici punti" del programma di pace, citato in Giuseppe Fumagalli, Chi l'ha detto?, Hoepli, 1921, p. 697

“Quando la guerra sarà finita, li costringeremo a pensare come noi, anche perché, fra l'altro, in quel momento saranno finanziariamente nelle nostre mani.”

rivolto agli alleati ostici nei suoi confronti, nel 1917; citato in Di Nolfo 2007

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Woodrow Wilson: Frasi in inglese

“Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.”

Address on American Spirit http://books.google.com/books?id=_VYEIml1cAkC&pg=PA142&dq=%22loyalty+means+nothing%22, Washington (13 July 1916)
1910s

“No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.”

Speech in New York City (20 April 1915)
1910s

“You know that it was Jefferson who said that the best government is that which does as little governing as possible…. But that time is passed. America is not now and cannot in the future be a place for unrestricted individual enterprise.”

“Campaign Address in Scranton, Penn.,” (September 23, 1912) http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/campaign-address-in-scranton-penn/
1910s

“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 the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals.”

“Socialism and Democracy,” essay published in The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Arthur S. Link, ed., Vol. 5, Princeton University Press, 1968, pp. 559-62, (first published, August 22, 1887)
1880s

“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.”

Section II: “What is Progress?”, p. 35 http://books.google.com/books?id=MW8SAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA35&dq=%22The+government,+which+was+designed%22
1910s, The New Freedom (1913)

“No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.”

“A Book Which Reveals Men to Themselves”, Address on the Tercentenary of the Tranlation of the Bible (7 May 1911) in The Politics of Woodrow Wilson, p. 104 http://books.google.com/books?id=rxC4IG60KTwC&pg=PA104&dq=%22withhold+his+hands+from+the+warfare+against+wrong%22
1910s

“I am going to teach the South American republics to elect good men.”

Statement to British envoy William Tyrrell explaining his policy on Mexico (November 1913)
1910s

“Segregation is not humiliating, but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen.”

As quoted in “Expunging Woodrow Wilson from Official Places of Honor,” Randy Barnett, The Washington Post, June 25, 2015, Wilson’s reply to William Monroe Trotter. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/06/25/expunging-woodrow-wilson-from-official-places-of-honor/?utm_term=.ce836b256091
1920s and later
Contesto: It will take one hundred years to eradicate this prejudice, and we must deal with it as practical men. Segregation is not humiliating, but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen.

“Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.”

Speech in New York City http://books.google.com/books?id=Bc7iAAAAMAAJ&q="Generally+young+men+are+regarded+as+radicals+This+is+a+popular+misconception+The+most+conservative+persons+I+ever+met+are+college+undergraduates"+"the+radicals"+"are+the+men+past+middle+life", (19 Nov 1905), The Papers of Woodrow Wilson 16:228
1900s

“I have read it with the deepest appreciation of Mr. Herron's singular insight into all the elements of a complicated situation and into my own motives and purposes.”

Letter to Mitchell Kennerley about the book Woodrow Wilson and the World's Peace, October 1, 1917 https://books.google.com/books?id=Gr6atcdK37EC&pg=PA123 https://books.google.com/books?id=2BL2AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA2383
1910s

“I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.”

Address on Latin American Policy before the Southern Commercial Congress http://books.google.com/books?id=_VYEIml1cAkC&q=%22I+would+rather+belong+to+a+poor+nation+that+was+free+than+to+a+rich+nation+that+had+ceased+to+be+in+love+with+liberty%22&pg=PA20#v=onepage Mobile, Alabama (27 October 1913)
1910s

“This war, in its inception was a commercial and industrial war. It was not a political war.”

Speech at the Coliseum in St. Louis, Missouri, on the Peace Treaty and the League of Nations (5 September 1919), as published in "The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson (Authorized Edition) War and Peace: Presidential Messages, Addresses, and Public Papers (1917-1924) by Woodrow Wilson Volume I Page 638. Addresses Delivered by President Wilson on his Western Tour - September 4 To September 25, 1919. From 66th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Document No. 120
1910s

“The success of a party means little except when the Nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose.”

First Inaugural Address http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25831 (4 March 1913)
1910s

“No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.”

“ Citizens of Foreign Birth http://books.google.com/books?id=_VYEIml1cAkC&pg=PA87&dq=%22No+man+that+does+not+see+visions%22”, Philadelphia (10 May 1915)
1910s

“[W]e are not bound to adhere to the doctrine held by the signers of the Declaration of Independence.”

Woodrow Wilson, “The Author and Signers of the Declaration,” (July 1907), The Papers of Woodrow Wilson (PWW), 17:251
1900s

“It is getting to be harder to run a constitution than to frame one.”

1880s, "The Study of Administration," 1887

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