Woodrow Wilson Quote

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.


Speech at New York Press Club (9 September 1912), in The papers of Woodrow Wilson, 25:124.


Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of...

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of...

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of...

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of...