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
There is no question what the roll of honor in America is. The roll of honor consists of the names of men who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.
You cannot become thorough Americans if you think of yourselves in groups. America does not consist of groups. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American.
He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.
Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people
When they the American soldiers came, they found fit comrades for their courage and their devotion.... Joining hands with them, the men of America gave the greatest of all gifts - the gift of life and the gift of spirit.
America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.
The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.
Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.
America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
America was born a Christian nation,
It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.
America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
There are times when words seem empty and only actions seem great. Such a time has come, and in the Providence of God America will once more have an opportunity to show the world that she was born to save mankind.