Woodrow Wilson on Veterans Day
1856–1924 United States
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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.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
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."
The lines of red are lines of blood, nobly and unselfishly shed by men who loved the liberty of their fellowmen more than they loved their own lives and fortunes. God forbid that we should have to use the blood of America to freshen the color of the flag. But if it should ever be necessary, that flag will be colored once more, and in being colored will be glorified and purified.
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.