Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) was the 28th President of the United States, in office from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913. With the Republican Party split in 1912, he led his Democratic Party to control both the White House and Congress for the first time in nearly two decades.
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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 coined the term progressive.
—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.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Peace
I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
—Woodrow Wilson
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.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Leaders, Leadership
The man who is swimming
against the stream knows the strength of it.
—Woodrow Wilson
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
—Woodrow Wilson
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter’s evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
—Woodrow Wilson
You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Friendship, Friends and Friendship
You are not here merely to make a living.
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,
and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
—Woodrow Wilson
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win,
than win in a cause that will some day lose.
—Woodrow Wilson
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
—Woodrow Wilson
Topics: Power
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