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
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
I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will.
A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have
No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.
People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.
Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
The allied nations with the fullest concurrence of our government and people are agreed that in Palestine shall be laid the foundations of a Jewish Commonwealth.
The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.
If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.
Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.
The westward march has stopped, upon the final plains of the Pacific; and now the plot thickenswith the change, the pause, the settlement, our people draw into closer groups, stand face to face, to know each other and be known.
Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.