...the mission had turned violent, it was still a manifestation of American helpfulness toward others: "We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest,...for the sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but the champions of mankind."7 Wilson had stated that peace depended upon democracy before, but now he...

...nation-states. "We shall be satisfied," Wilson told the assembled joint session of Congress, when human rights "have been made as secure as the faith and the freedom of nations can make them." In the final analysis, Wilson's internationalism aimed to ensure the "rights and liberties"...

...made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest,...secure as the faith and the freedom of nations can make them. Just because we fight without rancor and without selfish object, seeking nothing for ourselves...

...made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest,...secure as the faith and the freedom of nations can make them. Just because we fight without rancor and without selfish object, seeking nothing for ourselves...

...April 1917 is a useful example of this way of describing the American way of warfare. Wilson claimed, "We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion." Such noble intentions were supposed to ensure that Americans would fight justly. Similar ideas were...

...groups of ambitious men who were accustomed to use their fellow men as pawns and tools" and declared, "We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion." The United States, Wilson concluded, would "fight for the things which we have always carried nearest...