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
Speech to the National Press Club http://books.google.com/books?id=8gLmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA439 (20 March 1914)
1910s
Address in New York, 14 December 1906 http://books.google.com/books?id=Bc7iAAAAMAAJ&q=%22the+thing+that+has+ever+distinguished+America+among+the+nations+is+that+she+has+shown+that+all+men+are%22&pg=PA530#v=onepage
1900s
Des Moines Iowa speech (1 February 1916) http://www.combat.ws/S3/BAKISSUE/CMBT01N2/SMOKE.HTM, on "The Westerm Preparedness Tour" http://www.allthingswilliam.com/presidents/wilson.html
1910s
Speech to Kansas Society of New York (23 January 1911) — Wilson's definition of different groups, PWW 22:389
1910s
“It is like writing history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.”
Remarks on The Birth of a Nation attributed to Wilson by writer Thomas Dixon, after White House screening of the film, which was based on Dixon's The Clansman. Wilson later said that he disapproved of the "unfortunate film." Wilson aide Joseph Tumulty, in a letter to the Boston branch of the NAACP in response to reports of Wilson's regard for the film wrote: The President was entirely unaware of the nature of the play before it was presented and at no time has expressed his approbation of it.
Misattributed
“5. A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims.”
1910s, The Fourteen Points Speech (1918)
“The Coming On of a New Spirit”, speech to Chicago Democrat's Iriquois Club (12 February 1912), The Politics of Woodrow Wilson, p. 180 http://books.google.com/books?id=rxC4IG60KTwC&pg=PA180&dq=%22America+was+established+not+to+create+wealth%22
Sometimes abbreviated to: “America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal—to discover and maintain liberty among men.”
1910s
“The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.”
“The Leaders of Men”, speech at the University of Tennessee (17 June 1890), in The Politics of Woodrow Wilson, p. 74 http://books.google.com/books?id=rxC4IG60KTwC&pg=PA74&dq=%22ear+of+the+leader+must+ring+with+the+voices+of+the+people%22
1890s
Letter to Bernard Baruch (19 August 1916), PWW 38:51
1910s
Variante: Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
Memorial Day Address (31 May 1915)
1910s
“Prosperity … is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.”
Campaign speech, 1912, PWW 25:99
1910s
“Citizens of Foreign Birth]”, (10 May 1915)
1910s
Congressional Government, A Study in American Politics (1885; republished 1981), chapter 4, p. 135 (1981)
1880s
Speech in Omaha, Nebraska (8 September 1919), as recorded in Addresses of President Wilson (1919), p. 75 and in "The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson (Authorized Edition) War and Peace: Presidential Messages, Addresses, and Public Papers (1917-1924) Volume II Page 36; Wilson later used this phrase in his address in Pueblo, Colorado, in what has been called his League of Nations Address (25 September 1919)[Note: this phrase is not in Wilson's address in Pueblo, Colorado (25 September 1919). He made a much softer statement making the inevitability of a future war without the League implicit rather than explicit.]
1910s
“The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.”
As quoted in American Industry at War : A Report of the War Industries Board (March 1921) by Bernard Baruch
1920s and later
Essay on John Bright, Virginia University Magazine, 19:354-370 http://books.google.com/books?id=qP2eeyB3QkYC&pg=PA73&dq=%22rejoice+in+the+failure+of+the+Confederacy%22 (March 1880)
1880s
Section II: “What Is Progress?”, p. 48 http://books.google.com/books?id=MW8SAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA48&dq=%22All+that+progressives+ask%22
1910s, The New Freedom (1913)
“On the Spirit of America” http://books.google.com/books?id=w0IOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA122, Address to Daughters of the American Revoltion (11 October 1915)
1910s
As quoted in Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism, Ronald J. Pestritto, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005, p. 45. Came from Wilson’s marginal notes on one of his manuscripts.
1920s and later
A variation with "thought" instead of feared and "abominable" instead of phenomenal is reported as a misattribution in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 132
Misattributed
Address to Princeton University alumni, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (April 17, 1910); reported in The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, ed. Arthur S. Link (1975), vol. 20, p. 365
1910s
“The seed of revolution is repression.”
7th annual message to Congress http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29560 (2 December 1919)
1910s
“ Princeton for the Nation's Service http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/mudd/online_ex/wilsonline/4dn8nsvc.html”, Inaugural address as President of Princeton (25 October 1902); this speech is different from his 1896 speech of the same title.
1900s
“Gossips are only sociologists upon a mean and petty scale.”
On Being Human http://books.google.com/books?id=hp0RAAAAMAAJ&q="Gossips+are+only+sociologists+upon+a+mean+and+petty+scale"&pg=PA326#v=onepage, The Atlantic Monthly, (September, 1897)
1920s and later
Letter to Arthur Brisbane (April 25, 1917); reported in Ray Stannard Baker, Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters (1946), vol. 6, p. 36
1910s
Section I: “The Old Order Changeth”, p. 5 http://books.google.com/books?id=MW8SAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA5&dq=%22In%20most%20parts%20of%20our%20country%22
1910s, The New Freedom (1913)
1910s, Address to Congress: Analyzing German and Austrian Peace Utterances (1918)
“The Road Away from Revolution”, Atlantic Monthly 132:146 (August 1923). Reprinted in PWW 68:395
1920s and later
Section VIII: “Monopoly, Or Opportunity?”, p. 186 http://books.google.com/books?id=MW8SAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA186&dq=%22Let+me+say+again%22
1910s, The New Freedom (1913)
