02/25/1917
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"Yet, after I have uttered the word 'courage,' it comes into my mind that it would take more courage to resist the great moral tide now running in the world than to yield to it, than to obey it."
"America does love freedom, and I believe that she loves freedom unselfishly."
"Any influence that the American people have over the affairs of the world is measured by their sympathy with the aspirations of free men everywhere."
"The welcome which you have given me and Mrs. Wilson has been so warm, so natural, so evidently from the heart that we have been more than pleased; we have been touched by it."