WOODROW WILSON

PENS A SUPERB QUOTATION FROM HIS BOOK:

CONGRESSIONAL GOVERNMENT

ABOUT THE US CONSTITUTION

WILSON, (THOMAS) WOODROW. (1856-1924). Twenty-eighth President of the United States.  Excessively-rare Autograph Quotation Signed “Woodrow Wilson”.  One very full page, octavo. No place, no date but probably while at Princeton University. Superb condition.     Wilson writes:

“The Constitution is not honored by blind worship.  The more open-eyed we become, as a nation to its defects, and the prompter we grow in applying with the unhesitating courage of conviction all thoroughly tested or well-considered expedients necessary to make self-government among us a straight forward thing of simple method, single, unstinted power, and clear responsibility, the nearer will we approach to the sound service and practical genius of the great and honorable statesmen of 1787. 

                                                                                Congressional Govt”     Woodrow Wilson. “

 

In our experience spanning six decades of dealing with the finest historical autographs, we can recall seeing no other piece like this from Wilson’s hand.  Just an outstanding example, displaying Wilson’s political position on the Constitution and a choice item for the Presidential collector seeking an item with significant substance in full holograph, to compliment or complete their collection.                                                                                          

$6950.00