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
One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto.
An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy
A living thing is born.
Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.
They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs. We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves drank.
A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file.
The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty.
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.
No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.