Thomas Woodrow Wilson cytaty
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Thomas Woodrow Wilson – dwudziesty ósmy prezydent USA .

✵ 28. Grudzień 1856 – 3. Luty 1924   •   Natępne imiona Томас Вудро Вильсон
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Thomas Woodrow Wilson słynne cytaty

„Jeśli chcesz zdobyć sobie wrogów – spróbuj coś zmienić.”

If you want to make enemies, try to change something. (ang.)

„Ameryka została ustanowiona nie dla tworzenia bogactw, lecz dla realizowania wizji, dla wcielania ideału – dla odnajdywania i podtrzymywania wolności ludzkiej.”

Źródło: Waldemar Łysiak, Salon 2. Alfabet szulerów. Cz. 2, Wydawnictwo Nobilis, Warszawa 2006, s. 380.

Thomas Woodrow Wilson cytaty

„Zbrojna neutralność.”

Armed neutrality (ang.)
w orędziu do Kongresu 26 lutego 1917, miesiąc później USA wypowiedziały wojnę Niemcom.
Źródło: Władysław Kopaliński, Słownik wyrazów obcych i zwrotów obcojęzycznych, Warszawa 1989, s. 44.

„Szanowny Panie. Będąc dżentelmenem nie mogę napisać, co sądzę o panu. Moja sekretarka, jako dobrze wychowana osoba, także nie mogłaby go napisać. Ponieważ pan nie jest ani dżentelmenem, ani dobrze wychowaną osobą, zapewne zrozumie, co mam na myśli.”

list do jednego z przeciwników politycznych, który zirytował Wilsona.
Źródło: Przemysław Słowiński, Sławni ludzie w anegdocie, Videograf II, Katowice 2009, ISBN 9788371837272.

„W polityce nie da się bezpiecznie wypróbować niczego radykalnie nowego.”

Źródło: The State; cyt. za: Howard Zinn, Ludowa historia Stanów Zjednoczonych. Od roku 1492 do dziś, tłum. Andrzej Wojtasik, Wyd. Krytyki Politycznej, Warszawa 2016, s. 456.

Thomas Woodrow Wilson: Cytaty po angielsku

“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

“You know that it was Jefferson who said that the best government is that which does as little governing as possible…. But that time is passed. America is not now and cannot in the future be a place for unrestricted individual enterprise.”

“Campaign Address in Scranton, Penn.,” (September 23, 1912) http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/campaign-address-in-scranton-penn/
1910s

“In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals.”

“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

“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.”

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)

“No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.”

“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

“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
Kontekst: 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.

“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.”

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

“I have read it with the deepest appreciation of Mr. Herron's singular insight into all the elements of a complicated situation and into my own motives and purposes.”

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

“I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.”

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

“The success of a party means little except when the Nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose.”

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

“[W]e are not bound to adhere to the doctrine held by the signers of the Declaration of Independence.”

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

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