Woodrow Wilson Quotes About Welfare
-
The nature of men and of organized society dictates the maintenance in every field of action of the highest and purest standards of justice and of right dealing.... By justice the lawyer generally means the prompt, fair, and open application of impartial rules; but we call ours a Christian civilization, and a Christian conception of justice must be much higher. It must include sympathy and helpfulness and a willingness to forego self-interest in order to promote the welfare, happiness, and contentment of others and of the community as a whole.
→ -
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.
→ -
The welfare, the happiness, the energy and spirit of the men and women who do the daily workis the underlying necessity of all prosperity.... There can be nothing wholesome unless their life is wholesome; there can be no contentment unless they are contented.
→
Woodrow Wilson
- Born: December 28, 1856
- Died: February 3, 1924
- Occupation: 28th U.S. President
Related Authors
-
William Howard Taft 27th U.S. President -
Grover Cleveland 24th U.S. President -
Harry S. Truman 33rd U.S. President -
Nicholas II of Russia Former Emperor of All Russia -
Herbert Hoover 31st U.S. President -
William McKinley 25th U.S. President -
Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd U.S. President -
Eleanor Roosevelt Former First Lady of the United States -
Dwight D. Eisenhower 34th U.S. President -
Theodore Roosevelt 26th U.S. President -
William Jennings Bryan Former United States Secretary of State -
-
Ronald Reagan 40th U.S. President -
David Lloyd George Chancellor of the Exchequer -
Thomas Jefferson 3rd U.S. President -
George Washington 1st U.S. President -
Georges Clemenceau French Statesman -
Abraham Lincoln 16th U.S. President -
Warren G. Harding 29th U.S. President -
Calvin Coolidge 30th U.S. President