Spencer Heath Archive

Item 717

Woodrow Wilson, Statement of Fundamental Beliefs, quoted in Cornelia Stratton Parker, American Idyl: The Life of Carleton H. Parker, Atlantic Monthly Press 1919, page 66.

Sometime after 1936?

Original is in item 714.

“Why are we in the presence, why are we at the threshold of a revolution? … Don’t you know that some man with eloquent tongue, without conscience, who did not care for the nation, could put this whole country into a flame? Don’t you know that this country, from one end to the other, believes that something is wrong? What an opportunity it would mean for some man without con­science to spring up and say: ‘This is the way; follow me’ — and lead in paths of destruction.”