Quote

Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace.

Woodrow Wilson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Woodrow Wilson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1856
Born: December 28
Died: 1924
Died: February 23
28Th U.S. President
Academic
Jurist
Lawyer
Political Scientist
Politician
Statesperson
Teacher
University Teacher
The Manse
Thomas Woodrow Wilson
T. Woodrow Wilson
Thomas W. Wilson
President Wilson
T. W. Wilson
T. Wilson
Must
Sanction
Great
Sanctions
League
Lies
Security
Lying
Peace
Force

More quotes by Woodrow Wilson

Image
The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
This is history written in lightning.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and need of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
And when they [American soldiers] came, they found fit comrades for their courage and their devotion. ... Joining hands with these, the men of America gave that greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
The right is more precious than peace.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
I believe very profoundly in an over-ruling Providence, and I do not fear that any real plans can be thrown off the track. It maynot be intended that I shall be President--but that would not break my heart.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers it was a war to end all wars.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause which they did not pretend was peculiarly their own, which they knew was the cause of humanity and mankind. These Americans gave the greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--rather tawny perhaps, but look at his eye!
Woodrow Wilson
Image
I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.
Woodrow Wilson
Image
We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
Woodrow Wilson