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Woodrow Wilson on Memorial Day

1856–1924 United States

← All quotes by Woodrow Wilson

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Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.

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

This war, in its inception was a commercial and industrial war. It was not a political war.

2. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war.

The Fourteen Points Speech (1918)

You have laid upon me this double obligation: "we are relying upon you, Mr. President, to keep us out of war, but we are relying upon you, Mr. President, to keep the honor of the nation unstained."

War is only a sort of dramatic representation, a sort of dramatic symbol of a thousand forms of duty. I fancy that it is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Woodrow Wilson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.