Inaugural Address
03/04/1917
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I entirely concur in Senator Lodge's conclusion, and I hope I shall have his cooperation in bringing about the desired result.
The only thing that lifts the world is hope.
All of that is absolutely antidemocratic in its influence.
I do not know when I have been as proud, as an American, as when I have seen our boys deploy on the other side of the sea.