Woodrow Wilson Quotes About Conscience

Quotes about: Conscience

• 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

  Inspiring, Dog, Silly

• Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to obey. That is all it is.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Government, Average, Nations

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

• It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Heart, Men, America

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1980). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

• There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Lonely, Loneliness, Destiny

  Woodrow Wilson (2015). “Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917”, p.96, Princeton University Press

• I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy.... So I feel tonight like the man who is lodging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey and that in time, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey's end like men with a quiet conscience.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Lying, Ambition, Sleep

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