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
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.
It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life.
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
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.
The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it.
All things come to him who waits
The object of love is to serve, not to win
The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.
There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.