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
We never found a real model (for our vision).
I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.
No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over which they are set, and may thus be said to possess the souls of poets at the same time they display the coarser sense and the more vulgar sagacity of practical men of business.
My hope is ... that we may recover ... something of a renewal of that vision of the law with which men may be supposed to have started out with in the old days of the oracles, who communed with the intimations of divinity.
The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.
At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself
No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation
No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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.
Fear God and you need not be afraid of anyone else