12/29/1918
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"I therefore come to ask your approval that I should use the armed forces of the United States in such ways and to such an extent as may be necessary to obtain from General Huerta and his adherents the..."
"No communication I have addressed to the Congress carried with it graver or more far-reaching implications as to the interest of the country."
"I have come to ask you for the repeal of that provision of the Panama Canal Act of August 24, 1912, which exempts vessels engaged in the coastwise trade of the United States from payment of tolls."
"We are too big, too powerful, too self-respecting a nation to interpret with a too strained or refined reading the words of our own promises."