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
A little group of willful men reflecting no opinion but their own have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.
Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system.
[We are] no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.
What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world - no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.
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.