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
Congressional Government, A Study in American Politics (1885; republished 1981), chapter 2, p. 69 (1981)
1880s
Statement on the successful filibuster by anti-war Senators against a bill to arm merchant ships (4 March 1917)
1910s
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. 131-32; Boller and George note that Wilson was so fond of quoting this limerick that others thought he had written it. In fact, it was written by a minor poet named Anthony Euwer, and conveyed to Wilson by his daughter Eleanor.
Misattributed
“America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.”
Speech at Des Moines (1 February 1916)
1910s
Preface, p. vii http://books.google.com/books?id=MW8SAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP11&dq=%22I+have+not+written%22
1910s, The New Freedom (1913)
“Conservatism is the policy of making no changes and consulting your grandmother when in doubt.”
Attributed by Raymond B. Fosdick in Report of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, 1963, p. 49 http://books.google.com/books?id=EqE8AAAAIAAJ&q=%22consulting+your+grandmother+when+in+doubt%22&dq=%22consulting+your+grandmother+when+in+doubt%22&hl=en&ei=fJ-HTJ33MYL58AaTqZyOAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAg
1910s
1910s, Address to Congress on War (1917)
Speech in New York (23 May 1912)
1910s
From a letter to Mary A. Hulbert (21 September 1913)
1910s
Section VIII: “Monopoly, Or Opportunity?”, p. 185 http://books.google.com/books?id=MW8SAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA185&dq=%22A+great+industrial+nation%22. Note that this remark has been used as the basis for a fake quotation discussed below.
1910s, The New Freedom (1913)
Kontext: A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men who, even if their action be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom. This is the greatest question of all, and to this statesmen must address themselves with an earnest determination to serve the long future and the true liberties of men.
“There is such thing as a man being too proud to fight.”
Address to Foreign-Born Citizens (10 May 1915)
1910s
Campaign speech in Chicago (6 April 1912)
1910s
1910s, Address to Congress: Analyzing German and Austrian Peace Utterances (1918)
“The way to stop financial joy-riding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.”
The Atlanta Constitution (14 January 1914), p. 1 http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/ajc_historic/access/549848262.html?dids=549848262:549848262&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Jan+14,+1914&author=&pub=The+Atlanta+Constitution&desc=STOP+THE+%22JOY+RIDING%22+BY+ARRESTING+CHAUFFEUR+AND+NOT+THE+AUTOMOBILE&pqatl=google
1910s
“If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.”
Rededication and restoration of Congress Hall http://books.google.com/books?id=w0IOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA30&dq=%22If+you+think+too+much%22, Philadelphia (25 October 1913)
1910s
First Inaugural Address http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25831 (4 March 1913)
1910s
Quelle: 1880s, "The Study of Administration," 1887, p. 203; as cited in: Dimock (1937;28)
Speech in New York City (9 September 1912)
1910s
“You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.”
Address on Latin American Policy before the Southern Commercial Congress http://books.google.com/books?id=_VYEIml1cAkC&q=%22You+cannot+be+friends+upon+any+other+terms+than+upon+the+terms+of+equality%22&pg=PA19#v=onepage Mobile, Alabama (27 October 1913)
1910s
Quelle: 1900s, A History of the American People, Vol. 9 (1902), p. 82
Speech on Military Preparedness, Pittsburgh (29 January 1916)
1910s
“The only reason I read a book is because I cannot see and converse with the man who wrote it.”
Speech in Kansas City (12 May 1905), PWW (The Papers of Woodrow Wilson) 16:99
Unsourced variant: I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
1900s
“The Meaning of a Liberal Education”, Address to the New York City High School Teachers Association (9 January 1909)
1900s
Section VI: “Let There Be Light”, p. 36 (Note: different pagination from other references here) http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=1497285&pageno=36
1910s, The New Freedom (1913)
Attributed in Shadow Kings (2005) by Mark Hill, p. 91; This and similar remarks are presented on the internet and elsewhere as an expression of regret for creating the Federal Reserve. The quotation appears to be fabricated from out-of-context remarks Wilson made on separate occasions:
I have ruined my country.
Attributed by Curtis Dall in FDR: My Exploited Father-in-Law, regarding Wilson's break with Edward M. House: "Wilson … evidenced similar remorse as he approached his end. Finally he said, 'I am a most unhappy man. Unwittingly I have ruined my country.'"
A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit.…
"Monopoly, Or Opportunity?" (1912), criticizing the credit situation before the Federal Reserve was created, in The New Freedom (1913), p. 185
We have come to be one of the worst ruled… Governments….
"Benevolence, Or Justice?" (1912), also in The New Freedom (1913), p. 201
The quotation has been analyzed in Andrew Leonard (2007-12-21), " The Unhappiness of Woodrow Wilson https://www.salon.com/2007/12/21/woodrow_wilson_federal_reserve/" Salon:
I can tell you categorically that this is not a statement of regret for having created the Federal Reserve. Wilson never had any regrets for having done that. It was an accomplishment in which he took great pride.
John M. Cooper, professor of history and author of several books on Wilson, as quoted by Andrew Leonard
Misattributed
Defending the re-segregation of federal offices, in Conference with members of the National Association for Equal Rights https://web.archive.org/web/20150315002852/http://friesian.com/presiden.htm#43 (November 1914)
1910s
