09/18/1919
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"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."
"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."
"No communication I have addressed to the Congress carried with it graver or more far-reaching implications as to the interest of the country."
"as the conditions on which the Proclamation of March 14, 1912, was based have essentially changed, and as it is desirable to place the United States with reference to the exportation of arms or muniti..."