Woodrow Wilson Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• My urgent advice to you would be, not only always to think first of America, but always, also, to think first of humanity. You do not love humanity if you seek to divide humanity into jealous camps. Humanity can be welded together only by love, by sympathy, by justice, not by jealousy and hatred. I am sorry for the man who seeks to make personal capital out of the passions of his fellowmen. He has lost touch with the ideal of America. For America was created to unit mankind.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Sorry, Passion, Jealous

• No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Christian, Brother, Thinking

• 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

  Fighting, Unique, Europe

• What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Law, Reign, Opinion

  Woodrow Wilson (1945). “Woodrow Wilson: Selections for Today”

• We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world.... We are partners with the rest. What affects mankind isinevitably our affair as well as the nations of Europe and Asia.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Europe, League, World

• Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Freedom, Honor, Purpose

  War Message, delivered 2 April 1917

• There are times when words seem empty and only actions seem great. Such a time has come, and in the Providence of God America will once more have an opportunity to show the world that she was born to save mankind.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Opportunity, America, World

• The only way your powers can become great is by exerting them outside the circle of your own narrow, special, selfish interests. And that is the reason of Christianity. Christ came into the world to save others, not to save himself; and no man is a true Christian who does not think constantly of how he can lift his brother, how he can assist his friend, how he can enlighten mankind, how he can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which he lives.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Christian, Brother, Selfish

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.50, The Minerva Group, Inc.

• In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Men, America

  Woodrow Wilson (1920). “The Hope of the World: Messages and Addresses Delivered by the President Between July 10, 1919, and December 9, 1919, Including Selections from His Country-wide Speeches in Behalf of the Treaty and Covenant”

• Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things.... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Leadership, Real, Struggle

• The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Sea, Land, Fortune

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.177, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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