The Washington times., 1924-02-04
WILSON FAMED
ASEP|GRAM
MAKER
Pert Sayings Reveal Him as
IdeaIist and Lover Of
Democracy.

PeFr sayings Reveal him az
IdeaIist and Lover Of
Democracy.
Woodrow Wilson was noted al
one Of the foremost makers OF
epigFams Of his day. Following are
some he made, as compiled by
Richard s. Linthicum, director OF
publicity for the Democratic ma
tional committee:
1.-THE real test of a community ID
not what 1t does under compulsion
Of the law, but what 1t does Of its
own volition,
"The way to stop financial 10Y.
riding Is to arrest the chauffeur,
not the automobile.
Zone cool Judgment is worth q
thousand hasty councils.
America is not anything IL II
consists OF each of us. 1t is some.
thing only II 1t consists of all of us
"A boss is not so much a poll
tician as he Is the business agent
In politics of special interests.
THE States are the political
laboratories of free people.
Constitution Vehicle Of Life.
'The Constitution of the United
States is a vehicle Of life, not a
skeleton of fear.
"The strength Of America is pro.
portionate to the health, the buoy.
ancy, the elasticity. the hope, the
energy of the American people.
Nothing else in the world is
standing still except the stand.
patters.
"It win not do to make the
working man q mere instrument
instead Of a partner.
peace costs something and the
only way you can maintain peace
10 by thoroughly enjoying the re-
spect OF everybody with whom you
deal.
Must Keep Cool.
ut 10 not wise. not possible to
guide national policy under the i'm.
pulse Of passion.
You can not sell unless you buy.
mo one class can comprehend
the country: no one set of interests
can safely be suffered to dominate
II.
zone Of the advantages Of being
in q conspicuous position is that Il
keeps you honest. You can't do
any funny things in public.
There is only one way of hold.
ing the confidence of the American
public and that is by deserving It,
"Open air is as effective a cure
for bad politics as for tuberculosis.
For Ordinary Man.
IF ! did not believe in the ordi.
nary man ! would move out Of q
democracy.
"The thing to do is to supply
light, not heat. II 1t is heat It
ought to be white heat and not
sputter, because sputtering heat is
apt to spread the fire.
You cannot have international
amity until we have gained indus
trial equity.
II am not sure that America
needs more laws. The old law is
good enough and dangerous enough
for any man.
"You are just as big as the
things you do, Just as small as the
things you leave undone. The size
or your life is the scale Of your
I'VE must take the heartlessness
out OF industry. before we can nut
hearts into the nations great army
of toilers.
"The pushing things in this world
are ideals, not ideas. One ideal is
worth twenty ideas in propulsive
force.
"The fundamental trouble in the
United States is that the people
have not been the real force back
Of the Government.
Il believe that Democracy ia the
only thing that visualizes a whole
people instead Of visualizing some
OF the people of the country.
nave sometimes heard exhorta.
tons to the effect that politics
ought not to be injected into bust.
ness. 1t Is just as important that
you should not inject business into
politics, because SO far AZ the bust.
ness OF this country is concerned
there ought not to be any politics,
II you are going to sell carpets
IN India, you have got to have as
good taste as the Indians in the
pattern of the carpets, and that is
going some.
"A conservative man is a man
Who just sits and thinks, mostly |
its.
EgOtist Has Life Wrong.
An egotist is a man who has got |
he whole perspective Of life wrong.
de conceives himself as the cen.
er of affairs.
"You can not have prosperity un.
ess you have freedom of achieve.
nent.
THE minute I stop changing nv
mind as President with the change |
Il all the circumstances in the |
world. / will be a back number.
You do not settle things quickly |
" taking what seems to be the |
Quickest way to settle them.
1T is astonishingly easy to prove
hat something is wrong which no.
'ody has proposed.
mo nation can live without |
Vision. and no vision will exalt a
nation except the vision of real
liberty and real justice and purity
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