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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“There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.”

Speech to the National Press Club http://books.google.com/books?id=8gLmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA439 (20 March 1914)
1910s

“The only thing that has ever distinguished America among the nations is that she has shown that all men are entitled to the benefits of the law.”

Address in New York, 14 December 1906 http://books.google.com/books?id=Bc7iAAAAMAAJ&q=%22the+thing+that+has+ever+distinguished+America+among+the+nations+is+that+she+has+shown+that+all+men+are%22&pg=PA530#v=onepage
1900s

“There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.”

Des Moines Iowa speech (1 February 1916) http://www.combat.ws/S3/BAKISSUE/CMBT01N2/SMOKE.HTM, on "The Westerm Preparedness Tour" http://www.allthingswilliam.com/presidents/wilson.html
1910s

“RADICAL—one who goes too far.
CONSERVATIVE—one who does not go far enough.
REACTIONARY—one who does not go at all.”

Speech to Kansas Society of New York (23 January 1911) — Wilson's definition of different groups, PWW 22:389
1910s

“It is like writing history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.”

Remarks on The Birth of a Nation attributed to Wilson by writer Thomas Dixon, after White House screening of the film, which was based on Dixon's The Clansman. Wilson later said that he disapproved of the "unfortunate film." Wilson aide Joseph Tumulty, in a letter to the Boston branch of the NAACP in response to reports of Wilson's regard for the film wrote: The President was entirely unaware of the nature of the play before it was presented and at no time has expressed his approbation of it.
Misattributed

“I always remember that America was established not to create wealth—though any nation must create wealth which is going to make an economic foundation for its life—but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal. America has put itself under bonds to the earth to discover and maintain liberty now among men, and if she cannot see liberty now with the clear, unerring vision she had at the outset, she has lost her title, she has lost every claim to the leadership and respect of the nations of the world.”

“The Coming On of a New Spirit”, speech to Chicago Democrat's Iriquois Club (12 February 1912), The Politics of Woodrow Wilson, p. 180 http://books.google.com/books?id=rxC4IG60KTwC&pg=PA180&dq=%22America+was+established+not+to+create+wealth%22
Sometimes abbreviated to: “America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal—to discover and maintain liberty among men.”
1910s

“The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.”

“The Leaders of Men”, speech at the University of Tennessee (17 June 1890), in The Politics of Woodrow Wilson, p. 74 http://books.google.com/books?id=rxC4IG60KTwC&pg=PA74&dq=%22ear+of+the+leader+must+ring+with+the+voices+of+the+people%22
1890s

“I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it.”

Speech in Omaha, Nebraska (8 September 1919), as recorded in Addresses of President Wilson (1919), p. 75 and in "The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson (Authorized Edition) War and Peace: Presidential Messages, Addresses, and Public Papers (1917-1924) Volume II Page 36; Wilson later used this phrase in his address in Pueblo, Colorado, in what has been called his League of Nations Address (25 September 1919)[Note: this phrase is not in Wilson's address in Pueblo, Colorado (25 September 1919). He made a much softer statement making the inevitability of a future war without the League implicit rather than explicit.]
1910s

“The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.”

As quoted in American Industry at War : A Report of the War Industries Board (March 1921) by Bernard Baruch
1920s and later

“I yield to no one precedence in love for the South. But because I love the South, I rejoice in the failure of the Confederacy.”

Essay on John Bright, Virginia University Magazine, 19:354-370 http://books.google.com/books?id=qP2eeyB3QkYC&pg=PA73&dq=%22rejoice+in+the+failure+of+the+Confederacy%22 (March 1880)
1880s

“[Reconstruction was detestable] not because the Republican Party was dreaded but because the dominance of an ignorant and inferior race was justly dreaded.”

As quoted in Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism, Ronald J. Pestritto, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005, p. 45. Came from Wilson’s marginal notes on one of his manuscripts.
1920s and later

“I sat next to the Duchess at tea.
It was just as I feared it would be:
Her rumblings abdominal
Were truly phenomenal,
And everyone thought it was me!”

A variation with "thought" instead of feared and "abominable" instead of phenomenal is reported as a misattribution in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 132
Misattributed

“The seed of revolution is repression.”

7th annual message to Congress http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29560 (2 December 1919)
1910s

“We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
It is true that in order to learn men must for a little while withdraw from action, must seek some quiet place of remove from the bustle of affairs, where their thoughts may run clear and tranquil, and the heats of business be for the time put off; but that cloistered refuge is no place to dream in.”

“ Princeton for the Nation's Service http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/mudd/online_ex/wilsonline/4dn8nsvc.html”, Inaugural address as President of Princeton (25 October 1902); this speech is different from his 1896 speech of the same title.
1900s

“Gossips are only sociologists upon a mean and petty scale.”

On Being Human http://books.google.com/books?id=hp0RAAAAMAAJ&q="Gossips+are+only+sociologists+upon+a+mean+and+petty+scale"&pg=PA326#v=onepage, The Atlantic Monthly, (September, 1897)
1920s and later

“The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.”

“The Road Away from Revolution”, Atlantic Monthly 132:146 (August 1923). Reprinted in PWW 68:395
1920s and later

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