Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilsonwas an American politician and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921. Born in Staunton, Virginia, he spent his early years in Augusta, Georgia and Columbia, South Carolina. Wilson earned a PhD in political science at Johns Hopkins University, and served as a professor and scholar at various institutions before being chosen as President of Princeton University, a position he held from 1902 to 1910. In the election of 1910,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth28 December 1856
CountryUnited States of America
Woodrow Wilson quotes about
The seed of revolution is repression.
America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.
There is a power so organized, so subtle, so complete, and so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.
There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.
Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people, and her example, her assistance, her encouragement, has thrilled two continents in this western world with all those fine impulses which have built up human liberty on sides of the water. She stands, therefore, as an example of independence, as an example of free institutions, and as an example of disinterested international action in the main tenets of justice.
This is history written in lightning.
Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.