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
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Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.
All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.
No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know
The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause which they did not pretend was peculiarly their own, which they knew was the cause of humanity and mankind. These Americans gave the greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.
Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.
I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy.... So I feel tonight like the man who is lodging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey and that in time, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey's end like men with a quiet conscience.
One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
...men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.
Let it be your pride to show all men everywhere not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men you are.
The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.
If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.
To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.