Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
937
AUTHOR:
Woodrow Wilson (18561924)
QUOTATION:
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to be supplied is light, not heat.
ATTRIBUTION:
President WOODROW WILSON, address on preparedness, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, January 29, 1916.The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, ed. Arthur S. Link, vol. 36, p. 33 (1981).