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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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It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.
No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.
speech (1915)
Gossips are only sociologists upon a mean and petty scale.
America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
For the interesting and inspiring thing about America, gentlemen, is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.
Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.
Their ignorance and credulity made them easy dupes.
A History of the American People, Vol. 9 (1902)
The only reason I read a book is because I cannot see and converse with the man who wrote it.
The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work.
The seed of the jealousy, the seed of the deep-seated hatred was hot, successful commercial and industrial rivalry.
It was a menace to society itself that the negroes should thus of a sudden be set free and left without tutelage or restraint.
A History of the American People, Vol. 9 (1902)
There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of a people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
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