Sep 18, 1919
We are choosing between a doubtful peace and an assured peace, guided and led by the United States of America.
Woodrow Wilson
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Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, serving from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, he was born in Virginia and raised in Georgia before moving to New Jersey, where he became a prominent political figure. Wilson was a key leader of the Progressive Movement, advocating for reforms such as antitrust legislation and the establishment of the Federal Reserve System. His presidency is also noted for significant events such as the United States' involvement in World War I and his efforts to promote the League of Nations, an international organization aimed at preventing future conflicts.
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Sep 18, 1919
We are all bound in conscience, and all public officers are bound in oath, not to remain neutral with regard to the maintenance of the law and the vindication of the right.
Sep 17, 1919
I don't know your name; I don't know your face; but your manners are very familiar.
Sep 17, 1919
We can not release the great industrial and economic power of America and let it run free until there are channels that are free in which it can run.
Sep 17, 1919
Germany felt the pinch of the blockade more than she felt the stress of the blow.
Sep 17, 1919
The characteristic of this treaty is that it gives liberty to peoples who never could have won it for themselves.
Sep 17, 1919
It is our duty to look in the face the real circumstances of the world in order that we may not be unfaithful to the great duty which America undertook in the hour and day of her birth.
Sep 17, 1919
We are a people that redeems its honor. We are not, and never will be, quitters.
Sep 17, 1919
We sent them across the sea to assure the world that nothing such as Germany attempted should ever happen again.
Sep 17, 1919
The heart of this treaty is that it gives liberty and independence to people who never could have got it for themselves.
Sep 17, 1919
Not only that, but I do insist that they should be debated more fairly.
Sep 17, 1919
I am confident what that decision is going to be because I can see the tide of sentiment and the tide of conviction rising in this country in such a manner that any man who tries to withstand it will be overwhelmed.
Sep 17, 1919
The covenant of the league of nations is the instrumentality for the maintenance of peace.
Sep 17, 1919
There is not the least danger that America, after a treaty has been drawn up exactly along the specifications stipulated by America, will desert its associates.
Sep 17, 1919
This is the first treaty ever framed by such an international convention, whose object was not to serve and defend governments but to serve and defend peoples.
Sep 17, 1919
We can not do any effective thinking for the world until we know that there is settled peace.
Sep 17, 1919
The men who do not look forward now are of no further service to the Nation.
Sep 17, 1919
The immediate need of this country and of the world is peace not only, but settled peace, peace upon a definite and well-understood foundation.
Sep 17, 1919
This is a treaty not merely for the peoples who were represented at the peace table but for the people who were the subjects of the governments whose wrongs were forever ended by the victory on the fields of France.
Sep 17, 1919
I admit that there are debatable things, but I do not admit that they need be debated so long.
Sep 17, 1919
You must settle the difficulties which gave occasion to the war or you must expect war again.
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