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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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Government is not a machine, but a living thing. It falls, not under the theory of the universe, but under the theory of organic life. It is accountable to Darwin, not to Newton.
The New Freedom (1913)
The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
Well, nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.
So, our honest politicians and our honorable corporation heads owe it to their reputations to bring their activities out into the open.
The New Freedom (1913)
This war, in its inception was a commercial and industrial war. It was not a political war.
The principles on which to base a science of administration for America, must be principles which have democratic policy very much at heart.
I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow, and I have borrowed a lot since I read it to you first.
The seed of revolution is repression.
I cannot say with what deep emotions of gratitude I feel that I have had a part in completing a work which I believe will be of lasting benefit to the business of the country.
The question upon which the whole future peace and policy of the world depends is this: Is the present war a struggle for a just and secure peace, or only for a new balance of power?
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
The New Freedom (1913)
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
It is getting to be harder to run a constitution than to frame one.
Negro rule under unscrupulous adventurers had been finally put an end to in the South, and the natural, inevitable ascendancy of the whites, the responsible class, established.
2. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war.
The Fourteen Points Speech (1918)
In the last analysis, my fellow countrymen, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.
It must be a peace without victory...
Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.
Nothing is easier than to falsify the past. Lifeless instruction will do it. If you rob it of vitality, stiffen it with pedantry, sophisticate it with argument, chill it with unsympathetic comment, you render it as dead as any academic exercise.
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