Woodrow Wilson Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Lying, Greatness, Constitution

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1973). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

• America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness, which are derived from Holy Scripture. Ladies and gentlemen, I have a very simple thing to ask of you. I ask of every man and woman in this audience that, from this night on, they will realize that part of the destiny of America lies in their daily perusal of this great Book of revelations. (The Bible) That if they would see America free and pure they will make their own spirits free and pure by the baptism of Holy Scripture.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Christian, Lying, Book

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

• My dream is that as the years go by and the world knows more and more of America, itwill turn to America for those moral inspirations that lie at the basis of all freedomthat America will come into the full light of the day when all shall know that she puts human rights above all other rights, and that her flag is the flag not only of America but of humanity.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Dream, Lying, Inspiration

• The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Educational, Lying, Men

  Woodrow Wilson (1896). “Mere Literature, and Other Essays”

• The shadows that now lie dark upon our path will soon be dispelled and we shall walk with the light all about us if we but be true to ourselves.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Lying, Dark, Light

  Woodrow Wilson (2015). “Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917”, p.368, Princeton University Press

• Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Lying, League

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1988). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

• The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand, and to know that in performing it we are serving our country.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Lying, Patriotic

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.109, tredition

• Here lies, in a "horizontal" position The "outside" case of Peter Pendulum, watch-maker. He departed this life "wound up" In hopes of being "taken in hand" by his Maker, And of being thoroughly "cleaned, repaired" and "set a-going" In the world to come.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Lying, Taken, Hands

• What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Lying, Men, Self

  Woodrow Wilson (1915). “When a man comes to himself”, p.35, Рипол Классик

• The treasury of America lies in those ambitions, those energies, that cannot be restricted to a special favored class. It depends upon the inventions of unknown men, upon the originations of unknown men, upon the ambitions of unknown men. Every country is renewed out of the ranks of the unknown, not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Powerful, Lying

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.112, Lexington Books

• 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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