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...
Freedom exists only where people take care of the government.” Woodrow Wilson
Freedom exists only where people take care of the government.”
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.
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.
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.
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.”
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace. Woodrow Wilson
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare. Woodrow Wilson
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
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.
We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end Woodrow Wilson
We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end
Only peace between equals can last.” Woodrow Wilson
Only peace between equals can last.”
The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself. Woodrow Wilson
The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.” Woodrow Wilson
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.”
