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Woodrow Wilson Quotes about Liberty

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

Speech to New York Press Club in New York, 9 Sept. 1912, in Papers of Woodrow Wilson (1978) vol. 25, p. 124

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, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.20, The Minerva Group, Inc.

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.120, Lexington Books

Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force.

Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.49, Lexington Books

Liberty is its own reward.

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1978). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty.

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1971). “Papers: Edited by Arthur S. Link and Others”

Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional

Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.241, Lexington Books

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

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