Address at the Des Moines Coliseum in Des Moines, Iowa
01/31/1916
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I do not want a big Army subject to my personal command.
We are working out American principles a little faster, because American pulses are beating a little faster.
I admire the hopeful confidence of those of our fellow citizens who believe that American opinion can stop it, but, being somewhat older tha...
No; we are the champions of the freedom of popular sovereignty wherever it displays or exercises itself throughout both Americas.