Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-presidentNYU Press, 2006 - Počet stran: 429 From the Ivy League to the oval office, Woodrow Wilson was the only professional scholar to become a U.S. president. A professor of history and political science, Wilson became the dynamic president of Princeton University in 1902 and was one of its most prolific scholars before entering active politics. Through his labors as student, scholar, and statesman, he left a legacy of elegant writings on everything from educational reform to religion to history and politics. |
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... believe that Christianity is not for the obscure, but for the rich and prosperous and contented. It seems to me perfectly clear that an extraordinary opportunity is afforded by the present day to the Church; to the whole Church, whether ...
... believe to be a contradiction in terms. The mo- tives of the pure Socialist are clearly Christian motives; but the moment you translate Socialism into a definite program, into which you are going to force men by a universal social ...
... believe as the profoundest philosophy in the world, that only integrity can bring salvation or satisfaction; can bring happiness; that no amount of fortune can, in a man's own consciousness, atone for a lost integrity of the soul ...
... believe these words, who did not believe in the future life, standing up and doing what has been the heart and center of liberty always, standing up before the king himself and saying, “Sir, you have sinned and done wrong in the sight ...
... believe that there is some nobility in human nature, and especially to those who can see how small a part of his real character Pitt's egotism constituted his ardent, absorbing patriotism is sufficient cause for the belief that there ...
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On Education and Scholarship | 106 |
The Historian | 147 |
The Political Scientist | 218 |
New Jersey Politics | 313 |
Road to the White House | 341 |
President Wilson | 366 |
Plenary Session of the Peace Conference | 407 |
at Pueblo Colorado | 411 |
About the Editor | 429 |