03/04/1917
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"We are under the influences of it, but we are not at the sources of it."
"I want every man and woman of you to stand behind me in pressing a reasonable plan for national defense."
"The old cry for the defense of your hearth and home does not seem to me a very handsome appeal."
"The facts of the world are such that it is my duty to counsel my fellow citizens that preparation for national defense can not any longer be postponed."