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.
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.
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.
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.
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.
Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.
Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.