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
My best training came from my father.
Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.
What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.
America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.
I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.
Jefferson's Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
The fewer the desires, the more peace.
A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.
No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work.
The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.