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 such a thing as a nation being so right that it it does not need to convince others by force that it is right
A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file.
The right is more precious than peace.
Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.
Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to obey. That is all it is.
A living thing is born.
But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts
Fear God and you need not be afraid of anyone else
The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually
The thing to do is to supply light and not heat
It is easier to change the location of a cemetery, than to change the school curriculum
I fancy that it is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you
I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail
I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.