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
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.
An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy
My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.
I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
The world must be made safe for democracy.
Too much law was too much government; and too much government was too little individual privilege,- as too much individual privilege in its turn was selfish license
We cannot, we will not, choose the path of surrender
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.
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.
Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own
I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail