Woodrow Wilson: “We are too big, too powerful, too self-respecting a nation to interpret with a too strained or refined reading the words…”

Ten dollars contributed through the European Relief Council will save the life of one child.

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…

Very little reflection would lead any one to conclude that the measure would not furnish in any substantial degree the relief sought by the producers of most of the staple commodities which it covers.

I think, therefore, that the bill should not become law and that the tract should be made a Federal bird reservation for the protection of the birds which now frequent the lands.