| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 1080 |
| AUTHOR: | Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | WOODROW WILSON, governor of New Jersey, address to the New York Press Club, New York City, September 9, 1912.—The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, ed. Arthur S. Link, vol. 25, p. 124 (1978). |
| SUBJECTS: | Liberty |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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