Woodrow Wilson: “He may let some anecdote escape him which gleams with the very spark needed to kindle his exposition.”

Clearly, this is no time for the erection here of high trade barriers.

I herewith call your attention to an agreement with Belgium made by the British and French Premiers and myself.

If there ever was a time when America had anything to fear from foreign competition, that time has passed.

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.