Mr. Wilson's War Quotes

“It would mean,” he told the editor of the New York World, “that we would lose our heads along with the rest and stop weighing right and wrong. It would mean that a majority of people in this hemisphere would go war mad, quit thinking, and devote their energies to destruction . . . Conformity will be the only virtue. And every man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty . . . Once lead this people into war and they’ll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance . . . If there is any alternative for God’s sake let’s take it.”
― John dos Passos, Mr. Wilson's War: From the Assassination of McKinley to the Defeat of the League of Nations

“Think of what it was they were applauding,” he said at last. “My message today was a message of death for our young men. How strange it seems to applaud that.”
― John dos Passos, Mr. Wilson's War: From the Assassination of McKinley to the Defeat of the League of Nations