Woodrow Wilson Quotes

It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.

People call mean idealist. That is how I know that I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

People and provinces must not be bartered about from sovereign to sovereign as if they were chattels, or pawns in a game. Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril.

In this war, we demand nothing that is peculiar to ourselves; only that the world be made fit and safe to live in. The programme of the world’s peace, therefore, is our programme.