25 result(s) for Woodrow Wilson WWI Quotes.
"The world must be made safe for democracy."
"We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make."
"The day that America realizes that poverty is a cancer in democracy and decides to operate, that day we're saved."
"To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fiber of national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street."
"It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance."
"This is a war to end war."
"We are glad... to fight thus for the ultimate peace of the world and for the liberation of its peoples."
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"The right is more precious than peace."
"Only a tranquil Europe can be a stable Europe."
"We entered this war because violations of right had occurred which touched us to the quick and made the life of our own people impossible unless they were corrected and the world secure once for all against their recurrence."
"There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized common peace."
"The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty."
"I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it."
"We are at the beginning of an age when it will be insisted that the same standards of conduct and responsibility for wrong done shall be observed among nations and governments that are observed among the individual citizens of civilized states."
"The day has come to conquer or submit: if the forces of autocracy can divide us, they will overcome us; if we stand united, victory is sure and the world is free."
"A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike."
"Germany not only had to be defeated, but it had to be shown to the world that Germany was defeated."
"We are demanding that the world be fit and safe to live in and particularly that it be made safe for every peace-loving nation which, like our own, wishes to live its own life, determine its own institutions, be assured of justice and fair dealing by the other peoples of the world as against force and selfish aggression."
"I believe that God planted in us impulses of justice, goodness, and mercy."
"I have long enjoyed the friendship and trust of Mr. Gompers, and I can assure you that he is incapable of being led astray by any sinister influences."
"The example of America must be a special example. The example of America must be the example not merely of peace because it will not fight, but of peace because peace is the healing and elevating influence of the world, and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right."
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"I believe the people of the United States wish to see their Government strong enough to deal with other nations of the world upon equal terms."
"There is no man so corrupt that he never repents, nor none so good that he never sins."
"The seed of revolution is repression."
"The Government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy."
