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 truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
My best training came from my father.
Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life...
We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
This is a war to end all wars.
At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
We forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than in running before the crowd; we forget that in the resistance of the minority some of the biggest things in our own history have been accomplished, and the man who looks on the Stars and Stripes and doesn't hold a right to say nay to his neighbor, even if the neighbor is of the larger party, has forgotten the history of his country.
Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity.
Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.