Thomas Woodrow Wilson , foi eleito presidente dos Estados Unidos por duas vezes seguidas, ficando no cargo de 1912 a 1921. Era membro do Partido Democrata, tendo também sido reitor da Universidade de Princeton e laureado com o Nobel da Paz em 1919. Foi o presidente americano durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, que durou de 1914 a 1918. Interrompeu uma série de mais de 16 anos de presidentes do Partido Republicano. Foi a figura chave por trás da Liga das Nações - fundada durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial para manter a paz internacional.
Woodrow Wilson é considerado um pai do idealismo, lutou por uma Alemanha livre e com condições para um desenvolvimento econômico e democrático. Principal impulsionador da Sociedade das Nações, projeto que só não falhou por completo porque muitas das estruturas da SDN foram utilizadas futuramente na ONU e pelo fato de ter resolvido alguns pequenos conflitos entre nações na Europa e na América do Sul, tudo fez para que os políticos se tornassem sensíveis às populações que representavam, mostrando que estas são as mais prejudicadas com a guerra, e que as massas deviam ter uma opinião quanto à política externa do seu país . O fracasso da SDN está intimamente ligado com o facto dos EUA não terem aderido, apenas parcial e sucessivamente, à organização.
Woodrow Wilson também ficou conhecido por suas convicções racistas: reduziu bruscamente a participação de negros na política em muitos estados dos EUA, apesar de em sua campanha apregoar os Direitos Civis. Além disso, foi um grande interventor militar na América Latina, invadindo Nicarágua, México, Panamá e Haiti.
“Não uso apenas o meu cérebro, mas todos que posso tomar emprestado.”
I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow
The public papers of Woodrow Wilson - Volume 3, Página 95, Woodrow Wilson, Ray Stannard Baker, Howard Seavoy Leach - Harper & brothers, 1926
“Nenhuma tarefa, executada corretamente, é realmente particular. É parte do trabalho do mundo.”
No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world's work.
"Princeton for the nation's service: an address delivered on the occasion of his inauguration as president of Princeton university on October twenty-fifth, MCMII" - Página 33, Woodrow Wilson - Printed not published [The Gilliss press], 1903 - 40 páginas
“Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.”
Address on American Spirit http://books.google.com/books?id=_VYEIml1cAkC&pg=PA142&dq=%22loyalty+means+nothing%22, Washington (13 July 1916)
1910s
“No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.”
Speech in New York City (20 April 1915)
1910s
1910s, Address to Congress: Analyzing German and Austrian Peace Utterances (1918)
Section II: “What Is Progress?”, p. 47
1910s, The New Freedom (1913)
“Campaign Address in Scranton, Penn.,” (September 23, 1912) http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/campaign-address-in-scranton-penn/
1910s
“Socialism and Democracy,” essay published in The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Arthur S. Link, ed., Vol. 5, Princeton University Press, 1968, pp. 559-62, (first published, August 22, 1887)
1880s
Section II: “What is Progress?”, p. 35 http://books.google.com/books?id=MW8SAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA35&dq=%22The+government,+which+was+designed%22
1910s, The New Freedom (1913)
“A Book Which Reveals Men to Themselves”, Address on the Tercentenary of the Tranlation of the Bible (7 May 1911) in The Politics of Woodrow Wilson, p. 104 http://books.google.com/books?id=rxC4IG60KTwC&pg=PA104&dq=%22withhold+his+hands+from+the+warfare+against+wrong%22
1910s
“I am going to teach the South American republics to elect good men.”
Statement to British envoy William Tyrrell explaining his policy on Mexico (November 1913)
1910s
1910s, The Fourteen Points Speech (1918)
“Segregation is not humiliating, but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen.”
As quoted in “Expunging Woodrow Wilson from Official Places of Honor,” Randy Barnett, The Washington Post, June 25, 2015, Wilson’s reply to William Monroe Trotter. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/06/25/expunging-woodrow-wilson-from-official-places-of-honor/?utm_term=.ce836b256091
1920s and later
Contexto: 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.
Speech in New York City http://books.google.com/books?id=Bc7iAAAAMAAJ&q="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", (19 Nov 1905), The Papers of Woodrow Wilson 16:228
1900s
Address to the Associated Press (20 April 1915)
1910s
Letter to Mitchell Kennerley about the book Woodrow Wilson and the World's Peace, October 1, 1917 https://books.google.com/books?id=Gr6atcdK37EC&pg=PA123 https://books.google.com/books?id=2BL2AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA2383
1910s
Address on Latin American Policy before the Southern Commercial Congress http://books.google.com/books?id=_VYEIml1cAkC&q=%22I+would+rather+belong+to+a+poor+nation+that+was+free+than+to+a+rich+nation+that+had+ceased+to+be+in+love+with+liberty%22&pg=PA20#v=onepage Mobile, Alabama (27 October 1913)
1910s
“This war, in its inception was a commercial and industrial war. It was not a political war.”
Speech at the Coliseum in St. Louis, Missouri, on the Peace Treaty and the League of Nations (5 September 1919), as published in "The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson (Authorized Edition) War and Peace: Presidential Messages, Addresses, and Public Papers (1917-1924) by Woodrow Wilson Volume I Page 638. Addresses Delivered by President Wilson on his Western Tour - September 4 To September 25, 1919. From 66th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Document No. 120
1910s
Speech in Cleveland http://books.google.com/books?id=o3j10P6YFZIC&pg=PA1090&dq=%22nation's+honor+is+dearer+than+the+nation's+comfort%22 (January 1916)
1910s
Letter to Winterton C. Curtis (29 August 1922)
1920s and later
Speech at New York Press Club (9 September 1912), in The papers of Woodrow Wilson, 25:124
1910s
Division and Reunion, 1829-1889 Longmans, Green, & Company (1893) p. 273
1890s
"Princeton In The Nation's Service" (21 October 1896)
1890s
First Inaugural Address http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25831 (4 March 1913)
1910s
“No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.”
“ Citizens of Foreign Birth http://books.google.com/books?id=_VYEIml1cAkC&pg=PA87&dq=%22No+man+that+does+not+see+visions%22”, Philadelphia (10 May 1915)
1910s
A History of the American People (1902), describing the Klan as a brotherhood of politically disenfranchised white men; famously quoted in The Birth of a Nation (1915)
1900s
1910s, Address to Congress: Analyzing German and Austrian Peace Utterances (1918)
As quoted in American Chronicle (1945) by Ray Stannard Baker, quoted on unnumbered page opposite p. 1
1920s and later
1910s, Address to Congress on War (1917)
Woodrow Wilson, “The Author and Signers of the Declaration,” (July 1907), The Papers of Woodrow Wilson (PWW), 17:251
1900s
“It is getting to be harder to run a constitution than to frame one.”
1880s, "The Study of Administration," 1887
Letter to Mary Allen Hulbert Peck (1 August 1909), PWW 19:321
1900s
