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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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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans, because I am by instinct a teacher and I would like to teach them something.
At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
Conservatism is the policy of making no changes and consulting your grandmother when in doubt.
Prosperity … is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
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.
There is such thing as a man being too proud to fight.
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.
We are at the parting of the ways.
The New Freedom (1913)
Of course, like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised.
Nothing has spread Socialistic feeling in this country more than the use of automobiles. To the countryman they are a picture of arrogance of wealth with all its independence and carelessness.
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.
I am going to teach the South American republics to elect good men.
The only excuse that America can ever have for the assertion of her physical force is that she asserts it in behalf of the interests of humanity.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.
American industry is not free, as once it was free; American enterprise is not free; the man with only a little capital is finding it harder to get into the field, more and more impossible to compete with the big fellow.
The New Freedom (1913)
There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
Address to Congress on War (1917)
We shall not I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.
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