“ Property can be paid for; the lives of peaceful and innocent people cannot be. ”
Woodrow Wilson, We Must Accept War (2 April 1917). copy citation
| Author | Woodrow Wilson |
|---|---|
| Source | We Must Accept War |
| Topic | property life |
| Date | 2 April 1917 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6870/6870-h/6870-h.htm#4 |
Context
“I am not now thinking of the loss of property involved, immense and serious as that is, but only of the wanton and wholesale destruction of the lives of non-combatants, men, women, and children engaged in pursuits which have always, even in the darkest periods of modern history, been deemed innocent and legitimate. Property can be paid for; the lives of peaceful and innocent people cannot be.
GERMAN WARFARE AGAINST MANKIND
The present German warfare against commerce is a warfare against mankind. It is a war against all nations. American ships have been sunk, American lives taken, in ways which it has stirred us very deeply to learn of, but the ships and people of other neutral and friendly nations have been sunk and overwhelmed in the waters in the same way.”
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