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Woodrow Wilson on Peace

1856–1924 United States

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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.

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

What is at stake now is the peace of the world. What we are striving for is a new international order based upon broad and universal principles of right and justice, — no mere peace of shreds and patches.

Right is more precious than peace.

It must be a peace without victory. . . . 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.

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.

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