Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
871
AUTHOR:
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
QUOTATION:
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America, my fellow citizens—I do not say it in disparagement of any other great people—America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
ATTRIBUTION:
President WOODROW WILSON, address supporting the League of Nations, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, September 8, 1919.—The Messages and Papers of Woodrow Wilson, ed. Albert Shaw, vol. 2, p. 822 (1924).
