Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent

Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) was the twenty-eighth U.S. president, a Democrat, serving from 1913 to 1921. He led the nation during World War I, and previously served as a university president and Governor of New Jersey.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
October 27, 1913
If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.
Rededication and Restoration of Congress Hall
Most men are not untrue, but they are afraid. Most of the errors of public life...come not because men are morally bad, but because they are afraid of somebody.
American Chronicle
Nothing is easier than to falsify the past. Lifeless instruction will do it. If you rob it of vitality, stiffen it with pedantry, sophisticate it with argument, chill it with unsympathetic comment, you render it as dead as any academic exercise.
Princeton In The Nation's Service
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.
September 9, 1912
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
Address to Congress on War
There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
February 1, 1916

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.