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
When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.
Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.
Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.
I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.