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“No doubt a lot of nonsense has been talked about the inalienable rights of the individual, and a great deal that was mere vague sentiment and pleasing speculation has been put forward as fundamental principle.”

Woodrow Wilson

Constitutional Government in the United States, New York: NY, Columbia University Press, (1908) p. 16.
1900s

“Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.”

Woodrow Wilson

Address on American Spirit http://books.google.com/books?id=_VYEIml1cAkC&amp;pg=PA142&amp;dq=%22loyalty+means+nothing%22, Washington (13 July 1916) <br class="br">1910s

“No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.”

Woodrow Wilson

Speech in New York City (20 April 1915)
1910s

“This war had its roots in the disregard of the rights of small nations and of nationalities which lacked the union and the force to make good their claim to determine their own allegiances and their own forms of political life. Covenants must now be entered into which will render such things impossible for the future; and those covenants must be backed by the united force of all the nations that love justice and are willing to maintain it at any cost.”

Woodrow Wilson

1910s, Address to Congress: Analyzing German and Austrian Peace Utterances (1918)

“Government is not a machine, but a living thing. It falls, not under the theory of the universe, but under the theory of organic life. It is accountable to Darwin, not to Newton.”

Woodrow Wilson

Section II: “What Is Progress?”, p. 47
1910s, The New Freedom (1913)

“You know that it was Jefferson who said that the best government is that which does as little governing as possible…. But that time is passed. America is not now and cannot in the future be a place for unrestricted individual enterprise.”

Woodrow Wilson

“Campaign Address in Scranton, Penn.,” (September 23, 1912) http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/campaign-address-in-scranton-penn/ <br class="br">1910s

“In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals.”

Woodrow Wilson

“Socialism and Democracy,” essay published in The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Arthur S. Link, ed., Vol. 5, Princeton University Press, 1968, pp. 559-62, (first published, August 22, 1887)
1880s

“The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.”

Woodrow Wilson

Section II: “What is Progress?”, p. 35 http://books.google.com/books?id=MW8SAAAAIAAJ&amp;pg=PA35&amp;dq=%22The+government,+which+was+designed%22 <br class="br">1910s, The New Freedom (1913)

“No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.”

Woodrow Wilson

“A Book Which Reveals Men to Themselves”, Address on the Tercentenary of the Tranlation of the Bible (7 May 1911) in The Politics of Woodrow Wilson, p. 104 http://books.google.com/books?id=rxC4IG60KTwC&amp;pg=PA104&amp;dq=%22withhold+his+hands+from+the+warfare+against+wrong%22 <br class="br">1910s

“I am going to teach the South American republics to elect good men.”

Woodrow Wilson

Statement to British envoy William Tyrrell explaining his policy on Mexico (November 1913)
1910s

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

Woodrow Wilson

1910s, The Fourteen Points Speech (1918)

“Segregation is not humiliating, but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen.”

Woodrow Wilson

As quoted in “Expunging Woodrow Wilson from Official Places of Honor,” Randy Barnett, The Washington Post, June 25, 2015, Wilson’s reply to William Monroe Trotter. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/06/25/expunging-woodrow-wilson-from-official-places-of-honor/?utm_term=.ce836b256091 <br class="br">1920s and later <br class="br">Context: It will take one hundred years to eradicate this prejudice, and we must deal with it as practical men. Segregation is not humiliating, but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen.

“Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.”

Woodrow Wilson

Speech in New York City http://books.google.com/books?id=Bc7iAAAAMAAJ&amp;q=&amp;quot;Generally+young+men+are+regarded+as+radicals+This+is+a+popular+misconception+The+most+conservative+persons+I+ever+met+are+college+undergraduates&amp;quot;+&amp;quot;the+radicals&amp;quot;+&amp;quot;are+the+men+past+middle+life&amp;quot;, (19 Nov 1905), The Papers of Woodrow Wilson 16:228 <br class="br">1900s

“You deal in the raw material of opinion, and, if my convictions have any validity, opinion ultimately governs the world.”

Woodrow Wilson

Address to the Associated Press (20 April 1915)
1910s

“I have read it with the deepest appreciation of Mr. Herron's singular insight into all the elements of a complicated situation and into my own motives and purposes.”

Woodrow Wilson

Letter to Mitchell Kennerley about the book Woodrow Wilson and the World&#x27;s Peace, October 1, 1917 https://books.google.com/books?id=Gr6atcdK37EC&amp;pg=PA123 https://books.google.com/books?id=2BL2AwAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA2383 <br class="br">1910s

“I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.”

Woodrow Wilson

Address on Latin American Policy before the Southern Commercial Congress http://books.google.com/books?id=_VYEIml1cAkC&amp;q=%22I+would+rather+belong+to+a+poor+nation+that+was+free+than+to+a+rich+nation+that+had+ceased+to+be+in+love+with+liberty%22&amp;pg=PA20#v=onepage Mobile, Alabama (27 October 1913) <br class="br">1910s

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

Woodrow Wilson

Speech at the Coliseum in St. Louis, Missouri, on the Peace Treaty and the League of Nations (5 September 1919), as published in "The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson (Authorized Edition) War and Peace: Presidential Messages, Addresses, and Public Papers (1917-1924) by Woodrow Wilson Volume I Page 638. Addresses Delivered by President Wilson on his Western Tour - September 4 To September 25, 1919. From 66th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Document No. 120
1910s

“Some men who are not real men love other things about themselves, but the real man believes that his honor is dearer than his life; and a nation is merely all of us put together, and the nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort and the nation's peace and the nation's life itself.”

Woodrow Wilson

Speech in Cleveland http://books.google.com/books?id=o3j10P6YFZIC&amp;pg=PA1090&amp;dq=%22nation&#x27;s+honor+is+dearer+than+the+nation&#x27;s+comfort%22 (January 1916) <br class="br">1910s

“Of course, like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised.”

Woodrow Wilson

Letter to Winterton C. Curtis (29 August 1922)
1920s and later

“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.”

Woodrow Wilson

Speech at New York Press Club (9 September 1912), in The papers of Woodrow Wilson, 25:124
1910s