Thomas Woodrow Wilson, né à Staunton le 28 décembre 1856 et mort à Washington, D.C. le 3 février 1924, est le vingt-huitième président des États-Unis. Il est élu pour deux mandats consécutifs de 1913 à 1921.
Sa présidence marque un tournant majeur dans la diplomatie américaine en mettant fin à presque un siècle d'isolationnisme pour s'ouvrir à une politique interventionniste toujours en cours un siècle plus tard. Il lance l’idée d’une instance de coopération internationale, la Société des Nations, que les États-Unis n'intégreront jamais. Le prix Nobel de la paix lui est décerné en 1919.
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“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
Contexte: 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
