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
When I am travelling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life.
All things come to him who waits
I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.
There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
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.
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.