Woodrow Wilson Quotes About Sovereignty

Quotes about: Sovereignty

• Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed against him must be battered down. Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Doors, Order, Flags

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1974). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

• Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.

  Woodrow Wilson

  People, Presidential, Sovereignty

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.124, The Minerva Group, Inc.

• 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.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Self, America, People

  Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Addresses of President Wilson, January 27-February 3, 1916”

• No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Government, Hands, Principles

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.394, NYU Press

• 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

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