Woodrow Wilson, born on December 28, 1856, in Staunton, Virginia, spent his youth in the South, as the son of a devout Presbyterian family, seeing the ravages of the Civil War and its aftermath. A dedicated scholar an...
You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.” Woodrow Wilson
You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.”
The seed of revolution is repression.” Woodrow Wilson
The seed of revolution is repression.”
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. Woodrow Wilson
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
Only peace between equals can last.” Woodrow Wilson
Only peace between equals can last.”
Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. Woodrow Wilson
Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. Woodrow Wilson
There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world. Woodrow Wilson
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. Woodrow Wilson
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. Woodrow Wilson
No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.” Woodrow Wilson
There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.”
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. Woodrow Wilson
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know. Woodrow Wilson
No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know.
