Woodrow Wilson: “We live in a world which we did not make, which we can not alter, which we can not think into a different condition from…”

Actual relief can come only from the adoption of constructive measures of a broader scope, from the restoration of peace everywhere in the world.

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.

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…