Woodrow Wilson Quotes

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.

We love peace, as we abhor pusillanimity; but not peace at any price.

I never fought much. It just wasn't my thing. I suppose I could, but I've never got into fights. Not a real one.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

I've always been strongly on the side of non-violence.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.

We want to resolve this peacefully but if we can’t, there are some things worth fighting for.

We are much in the position of those who love peace so much that they are ready to fight for it.

You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war.

Those who were not taught to fight, have naturally inclined in favor of any other mode of settling differences rather than that of fighting.

We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.

I can't force a guy to fight.

Violence has never resolved any issue.

The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.

I'm actually a pretty quiet guy when it comes to fighting. I'm pretty serious. When I go out to fight people I'm not a big talker.

I never picked fights. I'm never going to start to pick fights. If they ask me to fight someone, I'll say yes.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.

Pacifism in the face of war is not only irresponsible - it is immoral. Refusing to meet force with force in the name of peace will beget not peace, but further death and destruction, the very violence the pacifists seek to avoid.

I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.

War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large standing army will sooner or later have a war. The man who prides himself on fisticuffs is going, some day, to meet a man who considers himself the better man, and they will test the issue.