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The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause which they did not pretend was peculiarly their own, which they knew was the cause of

The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause which they did not pretend was peculiarly their own, which they knew was the cause of humanity and mankind. These Americans gave the greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.

Woodrow Wilson
Fighting, Unique, Europe

It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting for their indepdence into a war waged against states fighting for the maintenance and extension of slavery...and the world, it might be hoped, would see it as a moral war, not a political; and the sympathy of nations would begin to run for the North, not for the South.

Woodrow Wilson
Running, War, Fighting
Woodrow Wilson (1903). “A History of The American Poeple”

It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.

Woodrow Wilson
War, Heart, Fighting
Address to Joint Session of Congress asking for declaration of war, 2 Apr. 1917

To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.

Woodrow Wilson
War, Fighting, Brutality
Woodrow Wilson (2015). “Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917”, p.399, Princeton University Press

For my part, I am very much more afraid of the man who does a bad thing and does not know it is bad than of the man who does a bad thing and knows it is bad; because I think that in public affairs stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because harder to fight and dislodge.

Woodrow Wilson
Fighting, Government, Stupidity
"The New Freedom".

We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.

Woodrow Wilson
Fighting, Defeat, Beaten

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.

Woodrow Wilson
Peace, Healing, Fighting
Speech in Philadelphia, 10 May 1915, in 'Selected Addresses' (1918) p. 88

I came from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its wreckage and terrible ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamour for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or son of some poor widow away off in some modest community, or perhaps the scion of a great family, who will have to do the fighting.

Woodrow Wilson
War, Son, Fighting
"The papers of Woodrow Wilson".

Once lead this people into war, and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street.

Woodrow Wilson
War, Fighting, Men
Woodrow Wilson (2015). “Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917”, p.399, Princeton University Press

But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts--for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.

Woodrow Wilson
Heart, Fighting, Rights
War Message, delivered 2 April 1917

There is such a thing as 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.

Woodrow Wilson
War, Fighting, Men
Speech in Philadelphia, 10 May 1915, in Selected Addresses (1918) p. 88

I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.

Woodrow Wilson
Fighting, Scotch, Knack

Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.

Woodrow Wilson
Fighting
Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1986). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

We shall fight for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.

Woodrow Wilson
Peace, Fighting, Safety
Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.257, Lexington Books

There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.

Woodrow Wilson
Fighting, Men, Presidential
Speech, Philadelphia, Pa., 10 May 1915

While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free.

Woodrow Wilson
Fighting, Presidential, Fighting For Freedom
Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.306, tredition

But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts

Woodrow Wilson
Heart, Fighting, Small Nations
Address to Joint Session of Congress asking for declaration of war, 2 Apr. 1917

A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation.

Woodrow Wilson
Freedom, Fighting, Liberty
Woodrow Wilson, Howard Seavoy Leach (1925). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state, educational, literary and political papers (1875-1913)”