Woodrow Wilson: “I believe in the ordinary man.”

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.

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…

No provision is made in the resolution for the preservation of any proportionate strength in the combatant corps of the Army.