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
Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.
No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
There is a power so organized, so subtle, so complete, and so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.
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.