Jul 18, 1915
I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power and authority vested in me by the Act of Congress approved April 27, 1904 (33 Stat., 352), do hereby proclaim and direct that lands which were, at the…
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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Jun 13, 1915
You do not create the meaning of a national life by any literary exposition of it, but by the actual daily endeavors of a great people to do the tasks of the day and live up to the ideals of honesty and righteousness and just conduct.
Feb 2, 1915
The trouble has been that when they came in the past—they came with all their bristles out; they came on the defensive; they came to see, not what they could accomplish, but what they could prevent.
Jan 27, 1915
candor and a sense of duty with regard to the responsibility so clearly imposed upon me by the Constitution in matters of legislation leave me no choice but to dissent.
Jan 27, 1915
Hitherto we have generously kept our doors open to all who were not unfitted by reason of disease or incapacity for self-support or such personal records and antecedents as were likely to make them a menace to our peace and order or to the…
Oct 23, 1914
Christ came into the world to save others, not to save himself; and no man is a true Christian who does not think constantly of how he can lift his brother, how he can assist his friend, how he can enlighten mankind, how he can make virtue…
Oct 23, 1914
I have always been very impatient of processes and institutions which said that their purpose was to put every man in the way of developing his character.
Oct 16, 1914
The lobby by which some of the worst features of the old tariff had been maintained was driven away by the mere pitiless turning on of the light.
Oct 16, 1914
The principle was adopted that each duty levied was to be tested by the inquiry whether it was put at such a figure and levied in such a manner as to provoke competition.
Oct 16, 1914
The thing had needed to be done for a long time, but nobody had ventured before to undertake it in systematic fashion.
Oct 16, 1914
With this new legislation there is clear and sufficient law to check and destroy the noxious growth in its infancy.
Oct 16, 1914
Business has already adjusted itself to the new conditions with singular ease and elasticity, because the new conditions are in fact more normal than the old.
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