 | Woodrow Wilson, United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson) - 1924 - 660 strani
...ought never to be used for aggression; ought to be used with the heart of humanity beating behind it. Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America, my fellow citizens —I do not say it in disparagement of any other great people—America is the only... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - 1927 - 688 strani
...ought never to be used for aggression ; ought to be used with the heart of humanity beating behind it. Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America, my fellow citizens — I do not say it in disparagement of any other great people — America is the... | |
 | Paul Richardson - 1971 - 408 strani
...twined with their victims by hidden psychic and economic bonds. The victors and the post-war world Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is...America is the only idealistic nation in the world. When Woodrow Wilson made this claim at Sioux Falls in September 1919 he was not just indulging in a... | |
 | United States. Congress. House Appropriations - 1973 - 1644 strani
...even if submerged in recent decades. It can be renewed. We would do well to remember what Wilson said: "Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that...America is the only idealistic nation in the world." Today, it is more important than ever that high officials nnd the institutions in their charge set... | |
 | Will Herberg - 1983 - 326 strani
...Communism" abroad and against "corruption and materialism" at home. It was Woodrow Wilson who once said, "Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I'm an American: America is the most idealistic nation in the world"; Eisenhower was but saying the... | |
 | Rabin - 1984 - 342 strani
...without the accompanying adjective "Wilsonian."14 He himself stated toward the end of his presidency: "Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that...know I am an American. America is the only idealistic country in the world." Ironically, though, it was as a realist that Wilson wrote "The Study of Administration,"... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 strani
...make those dreams come true. Wendell L. Willkie (1892-1944) American lawyer, businessman, politician Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is...only idealistic nation in the world. Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) American president The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike... | |
 | Xavier Rubert de Ventós - 216 strani
...to take precedence over the more traditional will to power or desire to possess.102 "Sometimes they call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know...idealistic nation in the world" (Woodrow Wilson). And so it is, indeed: pure interests soon hatch pure ideals; the grossest pragmatism, the most sublime... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - 2005 - 896 strani
...Nations. "Sometimes people call me an idealist," he said when the war was over. "Well, that is the only way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world. " 3 KISSINGER 's REALISM Kissinger tended to be dismissive of this strand in American policy. He once... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 strani
...better soup."— A Book of Burlesques, p. 205 (1924) and A Mencken Chrestomathy, p. 617 (1949). 871 Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America, my fellow citizens— I do not say it in disparagement of any other great people— America is the... | |
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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America, my fellow citizens — I do not say it in disparagement of any other great people — America is the only idealistic Nation in the world. 
