Woodrow Wilson: “These reasons seeming to me conclusive and compelling, I have not felt the liberty to acquiesce in this feature of the…”

Clearly, this is no time for the erection here of high trade barriers.

A recommendation at this time that suitable legislative action should be taken may appear somewhat premature, but in view of the approaching termination of my administration I have brought this matter to your attention, hoping that…

I do not believe that they should be accorded indirectly.

If there ever was a time when America had anything to fear from foreign competition, that time has passed.