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
If I am to speak for ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now
Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness, and all the ugly distempers that make an ordered life impossible
I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.
Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.
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
Too much law was too much government; and too much government was too little individual privilege,- as too much individual privilege in its turn was selfish license
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life.
It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.