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1856–1924 United States
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (28 December 1856 – 3 February 1924) was the 28th president of the United States of America (1913–1921) and the 45th governor of New Jersey (1911–1913). He was the second Democrat to serve two consecutive terms in the White House, after Andrew Jackson, and was the first President from the South to be elected since the American Civil War
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The success of a party means little except when the Nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose.
No country can afford to have its prosperity originated by a small controlling class.
The New Freedom (1913)
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American.
You deal in the raw material of opinion, and, if my convictions have any validity, opinion ultimately governs the world.
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
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.
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.
No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history. It represents the experiences made by men and women, the experiences of those who do and live under that flag.
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated.
The New Freedom (1913)
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.
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized common peace.
The supreme test of the nation has come. We must all speak, act, and serve together!
Armed neutrality, it now appears, is impracticable.
Address to Congress on War (1917)
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned.
It has never been natural, it has seldom been possible, in this country for learning to seek a place apart and hold aloof from affairs.
No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.
I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
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