Woodrow Wilson Quotes About Peace

Quotes about: Peace

• I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Believe, Mean

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

• No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Patriotic, Men

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.54, NYU Press

• The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Justice, World

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.395, NYU Press

• There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, War, Power

  Woodrow Wilson (2015). “Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917”, p.265, Princeton University Press

• Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Benefits, Lasts

  Address to Senate on essential terms of peace in Europe, 22 Jan. 1917

• Settlements may be temporary, but the action of the nations in the interest of peace and justice must be permanent. We can set up permanent processes. We may not be able to set up permanent decisions.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Justice, Decision

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.408, NYU Press

• There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Pay The Price, Self

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1981). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

• Neutrality is a negative word. It is a word that does not express what America ought to feel. America has a heart, and that heart throbs with all sorts of intense sympathies... We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations upon which peace can be rebuilt.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Negative Words, America

  "Woodrow Wilson: Selections for Today".

• We shall fight 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

  Peace, Fighting, Safety

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.257, Lexington Books

• 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

• 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.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Healing, Fighting

  Speech in Philadelphia, 10 May 1915, in 'Selected Addresses' (1918) p. 88

• 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]

• The light that shined upon the summit now seems almost to shine at our feet.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Feet, Light

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1986). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Lying, League

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1988). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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