Woodrow Wilson

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.” 

- Woodrow Wilson, born 28 December 1856.

The 28th President of the U.S., in office from 1913 to 1921. An intellectual with very high writing standards, he was a highly effective campaigner as well as legislative strategist. His biographer Arthur Link says, "He was a virtuoso and a spellbinder during a time when the American people admired oratory above all other political skills. But as a spellbinder he appealed chiefly to men's minds and spirits, and only infrequently to their passions."