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
Liberty is its own reward.
Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power?
No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.
...men are not put into this world to go the path of ease, they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle.
America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.
Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of life, not of mechanics; it must develop. All that progressives ask or desire is permission-in an era when 'development,' 'evolution,' is the scientific word-to interpret the Constitution according to the Darwinian principle; all they ask is recognition of the fact that a nation is a living thing and not a machine.
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.
My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.
The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For... things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.
I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.