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
It must be peace without victory; only a peace between equals can last.
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.
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.
There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it it does not need to convince others by force that it is right
A little group of willful men reflecting no opinion but their own have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
The way to stop financial joy-riding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile
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
Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness, and all the ugly distempers that make an ordered life impossible
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself
I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.