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
We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
It is easier to change the location of a cemetery, than to change the school curriculum
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
We should not only use the brains we have, but all that we can borrow
In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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.
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.
I fancy that it is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you
Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness, and all the ugly distempers that make an ordered life impossible
We cannot, we will not, choose the path of surrender
You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American.
There is no question what the roll of honor in America is. The roll of honor consists of the names of men who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.