Woodrow Wilson Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

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

  Woodrow Wilson

  Loyalty, Heart, Mean

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.142, The Minerva Group, Inc.

• Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Heart, Patriotic, Men

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.30, The Minerva Group, Inc.

• What is at the heart of all national problems? It is that we have seen the hand of material interest sometimes about to close upon our dearest rights and possessions.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Heart, Rights, Hands

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.19, The Minerva Group, Inc.

• Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Heart, Men, Excellence

  Woodrow Wilson (1929). “When a Man Comes to Himself”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

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

  Woodrow Wilson

  Love, Happiness, Bible

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.218, The Minerva Group, Inc.

• 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”

• You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving heart I have ever known, and my love, my reverence, my admiration for you, you have increased in one evening as I should have thought only a lifetime of intimate, loving association could have increased them. You are more wonderful and lovely in my eyes than you ever were before; and my pride and joy and gratitude that you should love me with such a perfect love are beyond all expression, except in some great poem which I cannot write.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Gratitude, Writing, Heart

• America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

  Woodrow Wilson

  4th Of July, Heart, Patriotic

  Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence”, Best Books

• But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts

  Woodrow Wilson

  Heart, Fighting, Small Nations

  Address to Joint Session of Congress asking for declaration of war, 2 Apr. 1917

• 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

• Some of the greatest and most lasting effects of genuine oratory have gone forth from secluded lecture desks into the hearts of quiet groups of students.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Heart, Groups, Gone

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1968). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

• I believe very profoundly in an over-ruling Providence, and I do not fear that any real plans can be thrown off the track. It maynot be intended that I shall be President--but that would not break my heart.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Real, Believe, Heart

  Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1977). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

• I lived a dream life (almost too exclusively, perhaps) when I was a lad and even now my thought goes back for refreshment to thosedays when all the world seemed to be a place of heroic adventure in which one's heart must keep its own counsel.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Dream, Heart, Adventure

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1977). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson: 1911-1912”

• Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity; even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--"rather tawny perhaps, but look at his eye!

  Woodrow Wilson

  Heart, Eye, Thinking

• But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts--for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Heart, Fighting, Rights

  War Message, delivered 2 April 1917

• Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power?

  Woodrow Wilson

  Heart, Men, Justice

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

• 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.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Heart, Men, Fire

• It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.

  Woodrow Wilson

  War, Heart, Fighting

  Address to Joint Session of Congress asking for declaration of war, 2 Apr. 1917

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