 | Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, George Henry Payne, Henry Goddard Leach, D. G. Redmond - History - 1914 - 988 pages
...with the whole people behind him, would be able in some measure to supply the needed leadership, and " is at liberty, both in law and conscience, to be as big a man as he can." Such was President Wilson's attitude on the tariff bill. This was the issue upon which, twenty years... | |
 | Literature - 1914 - 854 pages
...fully matured and elaborated in his recent volume, "Constitutional Government." He has no doubts that the President is at liberty both in law and conscience to be as big a man as he can, to decline to content himself with the negative power of vetoing the measures he disapproves, to regard... | |
 | Frederic Logan Paxson - United States - 1911 - 648 pages
...the presidency that Hayes and Cleveland had glimpsed, and Roosevelt had followed, was that of Wilson. "The President is at liberty, both in law and conscience,...a man as he can. His capacity will set the limit," he had written while yet a professor. "He has no means of compelling Congress except through public... | |
 | American literature - 1913 - 896 pages
...overwhelm such influences with shame and failure." THE NATION DEMANDS LEADERSHIP As Mr. Wilson observes, the President is at liberty both in law and conscience to be as big a man as he can, his own capacity being the limit, and if he is able to overcome the opposition of Congress it will be because... | |
 | United States - 1915 - 386 pages
...own parties. " The President is at liberty, both in law and conscience," he had written long ago, " to be as big a man as he can. His capacity will set the limit. . . . He has no means of compelling Congress except through public opinion." Unembarrassed by previous... | |
 | Frederic Logan Paxson - United States - 1915 - 386 pages
...own parties. " The President is at liberty, both in law and conscience," he had written long ago, " to be as big a man as he can. His capacity will set the limit. . . . He has no means of compelling Congress except through public opinion." Unembarrassed by previous... | |
 | Alfred Maurice Low - 1918 - 314 pages
...I shall be when I am given the opportunity." Not once but a dozen times we are given this insight. "The President is at liberty, both in law and conscience, to be as big a man as he can," he says, showing that neither the law nor his conscience sets any limit upon the President's greatness.... | |
 | Alfred Maurice Low - 1918 - 324 pages
...I shall be when I am given the opportunity." Not once but a dozen times we are given this insight. "The President is at liberty, both in law and conscience, to be as big a man as he can," he says, showing that neither the law nor his conscience sets any limit upon the President's greatness.... | |
 | Elocution - 1927 - 544 pages
...story is well known. As no other president had done "Woodrow Wilson shortened Pennsylvania Avenue. That "the president is at liberty both in law and conscience to be as big a man as he can"8 was his theory and he sought to secure that extra — but not anti-constitutional power by means... | |
 | Clarence Arthur Berdahl - Executive power - 1921 - 312 pages
...office. ' ' 5 Somewhat the same idea was expressed by President Wilson some years ago when he wrote : ' ' The President is at liberty, both in law and conscience,...a man as he can. His capacity will set the limit." 6 A doctrine of constitutional construction — the so-called Wilson-Roosevelt doctrine with regard... | |
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The President is at liberty, both in law and conscience, to be as big a man as he can. 
