Woodrow Wilson: “I, therefore, suggest and request that the 21st of December next be observed throughout the Union with special patriotic…”

an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene at the Capitol, in the District of Columbia, on the fourth day of March next, at twelve o'clock noon

Actual relief can come only from the adoption of constructive measures of a broader scope, from the restoration of peace everywhere in the world.

I suggest to my fellow-countrymen that the circles around their Christmas trees will be incomplete unless, mingled with their own expectant children, they shall visualize some of the waifs of Central Europe.

I regret that I am not able to see in the condition of the world at large or in the needs of the United States any such change as would justify the restriction upon that minimum which is proposed by the House Joint Resolution.