Woodrow Wilson Quotes About Liberty

Quotes about: Liberty

• Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Power, Government, Historical

  "The Political Thought of Woodrow Wilson".

• America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

  Woodrow Wilson

  4th Of July, Men, America

  Woodrow Wilson, Ray Stannard Baker, Howard Seavoy Leach (1925). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state; educational literary and political papers (1875-1913)”

• The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Liberty, Resistance, Political Freedom

  Speech to New York Press Club in New York, 9 Sept. 1912, in Papers of Woodrow Wilson (1978) vol. 25, p. 124

• The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. 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.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Selfish, Sacrifice, Political

  Speech to Congress, 2 April 1917, in 'Selected Addresses' (1918) p. 195

• Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Rights, President

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.108, tredition

• When I think of the flag.... I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice, and stripes of blood to vindicate those rights, and then, in the corner, a prediction of the blue serene into which every nation may swim which stands for these great things.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Thinking, Rights, Blue

  Woodrow Wilson, Ray Stannard Baker, Howard Seavoy Leach (1926). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state; educational literary and political papers (1875-1913)”

• I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Love, President, Liberty

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.20, The Minerva Group, Inc.

• The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Death, Power, Government

• A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Freedom, Fighting, Liberty

  Woodrow Wilson, Howard Seavoy Leach (1925). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state, educational, literary and political papers (1875-1913)”

• The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Carpe Diem, Political, Liberty

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1971). “Papers: Edited by Arthur S. Link and Others”

• Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Government, Liberty, Analysis

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.49, Lexington Books

• I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'

  Woodrow Wilson

  Business, Equality, Liberty

  Woodrow Wilson (1913). “Addresses, Messages and Speeches, 1897-”

• Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional

  Woodrow Wilson

  President, Liberty

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.241, Lexington Books

• You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Tree, Tears, Liberty

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.120, Lexington Books

• Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people, and her example, her assistance, her encouragement, has thrilled two continents in this western world with all those fine impulses which have built up human liberty on sides of the water. She stands, therefore, as an example of independence, as an example of free institutions, and as an example of disinterested international action in the main tenets of justice.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Encouragement, Self, Two

• There is one thing that the American people always rise to and extend their hand to and that is the truth of justice, and of liberty, and of peace. We have accepted that truth and we are going to led by itand through us the world, out into pastures of quietness and peace such as the world never dreamed of before.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Truth, Hands

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Fried (1965). “A Day of Dedication”, New York : Macmillan [1965]

• Liberty is its own reward.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Freedom, Government, Liberty

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1978). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

• Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Science, Liberty, World

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1971). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

• There will be no greater burden on our generation than to organize the forces of liberty in our time in order to make our quest ofa new freedom for America.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Freedom, America, Our Generation

• An evident principleis the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Strong, Equality, Safety

  Woodrow Wilson, Edwin Anderson Alderman (1928). “Woodrow Wilson's Principles of Democracy: Being President Alderman's Memorial Address Delivered Before a Joint Session of American Congress, and President Woodrow Wilson's Addresses Delivered During the Period of the Great World War”

• The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Patriotic, Political

  Speech to Congress, 2 Apr. 1917, in Selected Addresses (1918) p. 195

• I believe in human liberty as I believe in the wine of life. There is no salvation for men in the pitiful condescension of industrial masters. Guardians have no place in a land of freemen.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Believe, Wine, Men

  Woodrow Wilson (1913). “Works: ¬The new freedom of call for the emancipation of the generous energies of a people”

• But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts--for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Heart, Fighting, Rights

  War Message, delivered 2 April 1917

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