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Woodrow Wilson Quotes - Page 13

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The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document. It is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age. Its prescriptions are clear and we know what they arebut life is always

The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document. It is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age. Its prescriptions are clear and we know what they arebut life is always your last and most authoritative critic.

Age, Lasts, United States

The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.

Facts, Argument, Cases

Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.117, Lexington Books

In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.

Country, Men, America

Woodrow Wilson (1920). “The Hope of the World: Messages and Addresses Delivered by the President Between July 10, 1919, and December 9, 1919, Including Selections from His Country-wide Speeches in Behalf of the Treaty and Covenant”

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

Procrastination, Done, Politics

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1983). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction

Confused, Age, Force

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1974). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto.

Justice, Motto

First Inaugural Address, delivered 4 April 1913

They lived long that have lived well.

Long, Wells

Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

Suicide, Men, Political

Letter to Bernard Baruch, August 19, 1916.

Never for a moment have I had one doubt about my religious beliefs. There are people who believe only so far as they can understand--that seems to me presumptuous and sets their understanding as the standard of the universe.

Faith, Religious, Believe

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1980). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.

Country, Men, Princeton

No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.

Love, Thoughtful, Men

Woodrow Wilson (1915). “When a man comes to himself”, p.12, Рипол Классик

Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.

Tree, Energy, Sap

Woodrow Wilson (1956). “A crossroads of freedom, the 1912 campaign speeches”

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

Dream, Business, Common

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1978). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

There is such a thing as man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

War, Fighting, Men

Speech in Philadelphia, 10 May 1915, in Selected Addresses (1918) p. 88

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. Ay any rate, if it is heat it ought to be white heat and not sputter, because sputtering heat is apt to spread the fire. There ought, if there is any heat at all, to be that warmth of the heart which makes every man thrust aside his own personal feeling, his own personal interest, and take thought of the welfare and benefit of others.

Heart, Men, Fire

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

Progress Of Society, Political, Lines

Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.97, The Minerva Group, Inc.

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

Life, Nice, Political

Woodrow Wilson, Howard Seavoy Leach (1925). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state, educational, literary and political papers (1875-1913)”

The firm basis of government is justice, not pity.

Government, Justice, Pity

First Inaugural Address, delivered 4 April 1913

Today, supremely, it behooves us to remember that a nation shall be saved by the power that sleeps in its own bosom; or by none; shall be renewed in hope, in confidence, in strength by waters welling up from its own sweet, perennial springs. Not from above; not by patronage of its aristocrats. The flower does not bear the root, but the root the flower.

Sweet, Freedom, Spring

The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.

Oratory, Speech, Foxes

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1994). “Papers”

If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play ison the boards and the audience in the seats.... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards.

Leadership, Men, Play

Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.216, Lexington Books

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

Men, Purpose, World

Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1966). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it.

Men, World, Littles

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1981). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

Passion, Men, Rights

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1977). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

So far as the colleges go, the side-shows have swallowed up the circus, and we don't know what is going on in the main tent: and I don't want to continue as ringmaster under those conditions.

College, Swallowing, Circus

"The Priceless Gift - The Love Letters of Woodrow Wilson and Ellen Axson Wilson".

Born: December 28, 1856 - February 3, 1924
Occupation: 28th U.S. President

Quotes: 459

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