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World War I5 quotes
America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand. — Woodrow Wilson · 1916We have stood apart, studiously neutral. — Woodrow Wilson · 1915Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. — Woodrow Wilson · 1917The day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured. — Woodrow Wilson · 1917The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name. — Woodrow Wilson · 1914America and the world3 quotes
The world must be made safe for democracy. — Woodrow Wilson · 1917America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand. — Woodrow Wilson · 1916We realize that the greatest things that remain to be done must be done with the whole world for stage and in cooperation with the wide and universal forces of mankind, and we are making our spirits ready for those things. — Woodrow Wilson · 1917International politics3 quotes
The world must be made safe for democracy. — Woodrow Wilson · 1917No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation. — Woodrow Wilson · 1915A general association of nations must be formed... For the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike. — Woodrow Wilson · 1918Downsides of progress2 quotes
We have been proud of our industrial achievements, but we have not hitherto stopped thoughtfully enough to count the human cost, the cost of lives snuffed out, of energies overtaxed and broken, the fearful physical and spiritual cost to the men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years through. — Woodrow Wilson · 1913There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to succeed and be great. Our thought has been "Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself," while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves. — Woodrow Wilson · 1913Economic development2 quotes
We have been proud of our industrial achievements, but we have not hitherto stopped thoughtfully enough to count the human cost, the cost of lives snuffed out, of energies overtaxed and broken, the fearful physical and spiritual cost to the men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years through. — Woodrow Wilson · 1913There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to succeed and be great. Our thought has been "Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself," while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves. — Woodrow Wilson · 1913Foreign policy2 quotes
No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation. — Woodrow Wilson · 1915The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name. — Woodrow Wilson · 1914American Civil War1 quote
It created in this country what had never existed before-a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union; it was the rebirth of the Union. — Woodrow Wilson · 1915American foreign policy1 quote
Our whole duty, for the present, at any rate, is summed up in this motto, "America first." — Woodrow Wilson · 1915American ideals1 quote
The day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured. — Woodrow Wilson · 1917American power1 quote
We have been proud of our industrial achievements, but we have not hitherto stopped thoughtfully enough to count the human cost, the cost of lives snuffed out, of energies overtaxed and broken, the fearful physical and spiritual cost to the men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years through. — Woodrow Wilson · 1913Change1 quote
There can be no equality or opportunity, the first essential of justice in the body politic, if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives, their very vitality, from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they can not alter, control, or singly cope with. — Woodrow Wilson · 1913Environmental destruction1 quote
We have squandered a great part of what we might have used, and have not stopped to conserve the exceeding bounty of nature, without which our genius for enterprise would have been worthless and impotent. — Woodrow Wilson · 1913Equality of opportunity1 quote
There can be no equality or opportunity, the first essential of justice in the body politic, if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives, their very vitality, from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they can not alter, control, or singly cope with. — Woodrow Wilson · 1913Internationalism1 quote
We realize that the greatest things that remain to be done must be done with the whole world for stage and in cooperation with the wide and universal forces of mankind, and we are making our spirits ready for those things. — Woodrow Wilson · 1917Isolationism1 quote
Our whole duty, for the present, at any rate, is summed up in this motto, "America first." — Woodrow Wilson · 1915Political neutrality1 quote
Armed neutrality is ineffectual enough at best. — Woodrow Wilson · 1917