Woodrow Wilson Quotes
While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free.
Wilson, Woodrow. "Address to the American Federation of Labor." 12 Nov. 1917, Buffalo, NY. The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, edited by Arthur S. Link, vol. 45, Princeton University Press, 1984, p. 15.
Many anti-socialists criticize the political philosophy of socialism on the grounds that it denies citizens personal freedom. Yet most socialists claim that a central doctrine is to give citizens more freedom. The difference is in the type of freedom that they each emphasize. Most socialists observe that the major limits to the freedom of the vast majority of the people in the world are put there by the lack of economic resources. So increasing freedom to them is to decrease the de facto limits that are placed on people by the economic system. The person working for a large corporation that is a monopoly or the only employer in the area, and has a family and no saved money to move to another area, has no freedom to live where he would like. So the socialists emphasize getting the person more money and diminishing the power and the options of the employers to de facto restrict the corporations and businesses. The capitalists look at socialism and see a system that would diminish the freedom of the corporations and those people who own and manage them and argue that if they are successful enough the workers will fare better and be able to gather and save the resources that they might need to move, change careers and have more de facto freedoms." Viscount Prestwood
This line was quoted by President William Clinton in his Beijing University Speech in June 1998
This verse is inscribed on the Liberty Bell and the Statue of Liberty base.
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the president of Princeton University and as the 34th governor of New Jersey before winning the 1912 presidential election. As President, Wilson led the United States into World War I in 1917. He was the leading architect of the League of Nations, and his progressive stance on foreign policy came to be known as Wilsonianism. Scholars have generally ranked Wilson in the upper tier of U.S presidents, although he has been criticized for supporting racial segregation and white supremacy.
