Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the United States. Prior to his presidency, he was the governor of New Jersey and the president of Princeton University.
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Politics (1857-1907)
“The process by which a nation was created and unified came at last to an end, and a still more fateful process began which was to determine its place and example in the general history of the world.”
Library of Congress The Ideals of America
An address delivered on the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the battle of Trenton, December 26, 1901
Associated Press Democracy and Efficiency
“As we grow older, we grow also perplexed and awkward in the doing of justice and in the perfecting and safe-guarding of liberty. It is character and good principle ... which are to save us, if we are to escape disaster.”
The Reconstruction of the Southern States
“The civil war had given leave to one set of revolutionary forces; Reconstruction gave leave to another still more formidable. The effects of the first were temporary ... the effects of the second were permanent, and struck to the very centre of our forms of government.”
A Wit and a Seer
A celebration of the life and career of British writer and economist Walter Bagehot
A Lawyer With a Style
Praise for the literary contributions of Sir Henry Maine
On Being Human
“Once it was a simple enough matter to be a human being, but now it is deeply difficult; because life was once simple, but is now complex, confused, multifarious.”
The Making of the Nation
“The past has made the present, and will make the future. It has made us a nation, despite a variety of life that threatened to keep us at odds amongst ourselves. ... It has taught us how to become strong, and will teach us, if we heed its moral, how to become wise, also, and single-minded.”
