Woodrow Wilson: “Nothing has impressed me more, or impressed me more painfully, than the degree in which the rest of the world trusts us…”

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…

We have been vigorously building up a great merchant marine and providing for improvement of marketing in foreign countries by the passage of an export trade law.

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

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