What does this quote from Woodrow Wilson mean? Thanks.

Question

"Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power and to set up amongst the really free and self governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles."

Answer 1

It sounds as if Wilson, the supreme idealist, was espousing the idea of getting away from autocratic (non-democratic) governments, and to have the world organize something that came to be the League of Nations.