Woodrow Wilson Quotes About Victory
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To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations.
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It must be a peace without victory... Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last.
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It must be a peace without victory
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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
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Woodrow Wilson
- Born: December 28, 1856
- Died: February 3, 1924
- Occupation: 28th U.S. President
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