Biographie

The only US President buried in Washington, DC.

Was unable to read at age ten. Historians believe he suffered from a form of dyslexia.

His second wife was related to Pocahontas.

In his younger days he was an acquaintance of ex-Confederate general Robert E. Lee.

Was a Government Professor at Princeton University, and later President of the University. This makes him the first of only two professional educators to become President. The second was Lyndon B. Johnson.

[After viewing The Birth of a Nation (1915)]: It was like writing history with lightning. It is all so terribly true.

[1920: Upon hearing that the Senate had defeated his proposal for the League of Nations] They have shamed us in the eyes of the world.

Never murder a man who is committing suicide.

All that progressives desire is permission to interpret the Constitution according to Darwinian principle.

[on 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 our dreams die, but others nourish and protect them, nurse them through bad days till they bring them to sunshine and light, which always come to those who sincerely believe that their dreams will come true.