09/01/1916
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"We cannot isolate our thought or our action in such a matter from the thought of the rest of the world."
"I regard the concurrence of the Senate in the constitutional amendment proposing the extension of the suffrage to women as vitally essential to the successful prosecution of the great war of humanity ..."
"We shall not only be distrusted but shall deserve to be distrusted if we do not enfranchise them with the fullest possible enfranchisement, as it is now certain that the other great free nations will ..."
"It is my duty to win the war and to ask you to remove every obstacle that stands in the way of winning it."