Woodrow Wilson Quotes

Enjoy our collection of quotes by famous people like Woodrow Wilson. Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born on December 28, 1856 and died on February 3, 1924. He was the 28th President of the United States. 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 Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft dividing the Republican Party vote, Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912. He is the only U.S. President to hold a Ph.D. degree, which he obtained from Johns Hopkins University. Here are a few of our favorite quotes: "The thing to do is to supply light and not heat."; "I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail." , and "The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.".

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow Wilson

If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish pig.
Woodrow Wilson

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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

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

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
Woodrow Wilson

When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.
Woodrow Wilson

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
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.
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