Woodrow Wilson Berühmte Zitate
Der Staat. Elemente historischer und praktischer Politik. Übersetzung Günther Thomas. Berlin, Leipzig: Hillger 1913. S. 483 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=HCriAAAAMAAJ&dq=unterweisend
Original engl.: "Family discipline is variable, selective, formative: it must lead the individual. But the state must not lead. It must create conditions, but not mould individuals." - The State. Elements of Historical and Practical Politics, revised edition p. 638 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=MHprtJvMazQC&q=%22variable,+selective,+formative%22
Der Staat (The State, 1893)
Vor der Kriegserklärung 1917. Zitiert nach: Casimir Hermann Baer (Herausgeber). Der Völkerkrieg. Eine Chronik der Ereignisse seit dem 1. Juli 1914. Band 22. Stuttgart Hoffmann 1918. S. 142
Original englisch: "The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty." - s:en:Woodrow Wilson Urges Congress to Declare War on Germany 2. April 1917
Der Staat (The State, 1893), Rede vom 2. April 1917 vor beiden Häusern des Kongresses
Original englisch: "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it." - A Crossroads Of Freedom. The 1912 Speeches Of Woodrow Wilson. Yale UP 1956, p.130 archive.org https://archive.org/stream/crossroadsoffree007728mbp#page/n155/mode/2up; The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Princeton UP 1978, 25:124 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=FjsfAQAAMAAJ&q=%22the+subjects%22
Der Staat (The State, 1893), Rede vom 9. September 1912 vor dem New York Press Club
Der Staat. Elemente historischer und praktischer Politik. Übersetzung Günther Thomas. Berlin, Leipzig: Hillger 1913. S. 412 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=HCriAAAAMAAJ&dq=schwerfälligen
Original engl.: "The most absolute monarchs have had to learn the moods, observe the traditions, and respect the prejudices of their subjects ; the most ardent reformers have had to learn that too far to outrun the more sluggish masses was to render themselves powerless. Revolution has always been followed by reaction, by a return to even less than the normal speed of political movement." - The State. Elements of Historical and Practical Politics. Boston 1893. p. 575 archive.org http://archive.org/stream/stateelementshi11wilsgoog#page/n398/mode/2up
Der Staat (The State, 1893)
Woodrow Wilson Zitate und Sprüche
Der Staat. Elemente historischer und praktischer Politik. Übersetzung Günther Thomas. Berlin, Leipzig: Hillger 1913. S. 482 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=HCriAAAAMAAJ&dq=privatsache
Engl.: "The state, for instance, ought not to supervise private morals because they belong to the sphere of separate individual responsibility, not to the sphere of mutual dependence. Thought and conscience are private. Opinion is optional. The state may intervene only where common action, uniform law are indispensable." - The State. Elements of Historical and Practical Politics, revised edition p. 637 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=MHprtJvMazQC&q=%22state,+for+instance%22
Der Staat (The State, 1893)
(Original englisch: ”Every country-side wished to have its own Ku Klux, founded in secrecy and mystery like the mother ‘Den’ at Pulaski, until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, an ‘Invisible Empire of the South’, bound together in loose organization to protect the southern country from some of the ugliest hazards of a time of revolution.“) – Band V: Reunion and Nationalization, S. 60
Der Staat (The State, 1893), A History of the American People (1901)
Über die Entstehung der Ku-Klux-Klan nach dem Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg 1865
(Original englisch: ”The white men of the South were aroused by the mere instinct of self-preservation to rid themselves, by fair means or foul, of the intolerable burden of governments sustained by the votes of ignorant negroes and conducted in the interest of adventurers; […]“) – Band V: Reunion and Nationalization, S. 58
Der Staat (The State, 1893), A History of the American People (1901)
Quelle: 14.06.1919 in Versailles, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson#Haltung_zu_Deutschland
Woodrow Wilson: Zitate auf Englisch
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)
