As there are times of sorrow or of peril which try men’s souls and lay bare the inner secrets of their characters, so there are times of revolution which act as fire in burning away all but the basic elements of constitutions.
Wilson compares times of revolution to a fire that reveals the fundamental elements of constitutions.
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I return herewith, without my approval, House joint resolution No. 440.
public interests require that the Senate of the United States be convened at twelve o'clock on the fourth day of March next to receive such communications as may be made by the Executive.
We have been vigorously building up a great merchant marine and providing for improvement of marketing in foreign countries by the passage of an export trade law.
We shall not witness an immediate satisfactory adjustment of domestic and international trade relations.
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