"America has always stood resolutely and absolutely for the right of every people to determine its own destiny and its own affairs."
"It is necessary, therefore, that we should examine ourselves and see whether we can make certain that the tasks imposed upon us will be performed, well performed, and performed without interruption."
"We believe in peace, but we believe also in justice and righteousness and liberty, and peace can not subsist without these."
"The love the principles upon which their political life is founded."
"All persons leaving the United States for foreign countries should be provided with passports of the Governments of which they are citizens."
"Applications shall be made in the manner heretofore prescribed by the rules governing the granting and issuing of passports."
"Now, therefore, in order to correct the error in locating said southern boundary line and in order to conform such line to the public system of surveys recently extended over these lands, it is hereby..."
"Pursuant to authority contained in the act of Congress approved June 25, 1910 (36 Stat., 847), as amended by act of August 24, 1912 (37 Stat., 497), and upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Agr..."
"Our people have come more and more to a sober realization of the part they have been called upon to play in a time when all the world is shaken by unparalleled distresses and disasters."
"I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power and authority vested in me by the Act of Congress approved April 27, 1904 (33 Stat., 352), do hereby proclaim and d..."
"You do not create the meaning of a national life by any literary exposition of it, but by the actual daily endeavors of a great people to do the tasks of the day and live up to the ideals of honesty a..."
"The trouble has been that when they came in the past—they came with all their bristles out; they came on the defensive; they came to see, not what they could accomplish, but what they could prevent."
"candor and a sense of duty with regard to the responsibility so clearly imposed upon me by the Constitution in matters of legislation leave me no choice but to dissent."
"Hitherto we have generously kept our doors open to all who were not unfitted by reason of disease or incapacity for self-support or such personal records and antecedents as were likely to make them a ..."
"Christ came into the world to save others, not to save himself; and no man is a true Christian who does not think constantly of how he can lift his brother, how he can assist his friend, how he can en..."
"I have always been very impatient of processes and institutions which said that their purpose was to put every man in the way of developing his character."
"Business has already adjusted itself to the new conditions with singular ease and elasticity, because the new conditions are in fact more normal than the old."
"The principle was adopted that each duty levied was to be tested by the inquiry whether it was put at such a figure and levied in such a manner as to provoke competition."