Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1027 |
| AUTHOR: | Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) |
| QUOTATION: | The program of the world’s peace, therefore, is our program; and that program, the only possible program, as we see it, is this: 1. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | President This speech on war aims and peace terms laid the groundwork for the proposal of a League of Nations. |
| SUBJECTS: | League of Nations |