Woodrow Wilson frasi celebri
da un discorso del 1914; citato in Di Nolfo 2007
“L'America non può essere come uno struzzo che nasconde la testa sotto la sabbia.”
dal discorso di Des Moines, Iowa, 1 febbraio 1916
nono dei "Quattordici punti" del programma di pace, citato in Giuseppe Fumagalli, Chi l'ha detto?, Hoepli, 1921, p. 697
rivolto agli alleati ostici nei suoi confronti, nel 1917; citato in Di Nolfo 2007
dal preambolo dell'enunciazione davanti al senato dei quattordici punti degli obiettivi di guerra americani, 8 gennaio 1918, in risposta al "Decreto per la pace" dei Soviet
Frasi sulla pace di Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson Frasi e Citazioni
parlando della costituzione della Federal Reserve e della transizione a un'economia basata sul debito
Woodrow Wilson: Frasi in inglese
Speech to the National Press Club http://books.google.com/books?id=8gLmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA439 (20 March 1914) <br class="br">1910s
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 <br class="br">1900s
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 <br class="br">1910s
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
“5. A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims.”
1910s, The Fourteen Points Speech (1918)
“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 <br class="br">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.” <br class="br">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 <br class="br">1890s
Letter to Bernard Baruch (19 August 1916), PWW 38:51
1910s
Variante: Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
Memorial Day Address (31 May 1915)
1910s
“Prosperity … is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.”
Campaign speech, 1912, PWW 25:99
1910s
“Citizens of Foreign Birth]”, (10 May 1915)
1910s
Woodrow Wilson Congressional Government
Congressional Government, A Study in American Politics (1885; republished 1981), chapter 4, p. 135 (1981)
1880s
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
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) <br class="br">1880s
Section II: “What Is Progress?”, p. 48 http://books.google.com/books?id=MW8SAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA48&dq=%22All+that+progressives+ask%22 <br class="br">1910s, The New Freedom (1913)
“On the Spirit of America” http://books.google.com/books?id=w0IOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA122, Address to Daughters of the American Revoltion (11 October 1915) <br class="br">1910s
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
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
Address to Princeton University alumni, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (April 17, 1910); reported in The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, ed. Arthur S. Link (1975), vol. 20, p. 365
1910s
“The seed of revolution is repression.”
7th annual message to Congress http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29560 (2 December 1919) <br class="br">1910s
“ 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. <br class="br">1900s
“Gossips are only sociologists upon a mean and petty scale.”
On Being Human http://books.google.com/books?id=hp0RAAAAMAAJ&q=&quot;Gossips+are+only+sociologists+upon+a+mean+and+petty+scale&quot;&pg=PA326#v=onepage, The Atlantic Monthly, (September, 1897) <br class="br">1920s and later
Letter to Arthur Brisbane (April 25, 1917); reported in Ray Stannard Baker, Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters (1946), vol. 6, p. 36
1910s
Section I: “The Old Order Changeth”, p. 5 http://books.google.com/books?id=MW8SAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA5&dq=%22In%20most%20parts%20of%20our%20country%22 <br class="br">1910s, The New Freedom (1913)
1910s, Address to Congress: Analyzing German and Austrian Peace Utterances (1918)
“The Road Away from Revolution”, Atlantic Monthly 132:146 (August 1923). Reprinted in PWW 68:395
1920s and later
Section VIII: “Monopoly, Or Opportunity?”, p. 186 http://books.google.com/books?id=MW8SAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA186&dq=%22Let+me+say+again%22 <br class="br">1910s, The New Freedom (1913)
