“ But no one asks or expects anything more than an equality of rights. Mankind is looking now for freedom of life, not for equipoises of power. ”
Woodrow Wilson, A World League For Peace (22 January 1917). copy citation
| Author | Woodrow Wilson |
|---|---|
| Source | A World League For Peace |
| Topic | equality freedom |
| Date | 22 January 1917 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6870/6870-h/6870-h.htm#1 |
Context
“Right must be based upon the common strength, not upon the individual strength, of the nations upon whose concert peace will depend.
Equality of territory or of resources there, of course, cannot be; nor any other sort of equality not gained in the ordinary peaceful and legitimate development of the peoples themselves. But no one asks or expects anything more than an equality of rights. Mankind is looking now for freedom of life, not for equipoises of power. And there is a deeper thing involved than even equality of rights among organized nations. No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that Governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand people about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.
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Equality of territory or of resources there, of course, cannot be; nor any other sort of equality not gained in the ordinary peaceful and legitimate development of the peoples themselves. But no one asks or expects anything more than an equality of rights. Mankind is looking now for freedom of life, not for equipoises of power. And there is a deeper thing involved than even equality of rights among organized nations. No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that Governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand people about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.
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