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.
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 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
Germany felt the pinch of the blockade more than she felt the stress of the blow.
Sep 16, 1919
The thing that Germany attempted, if it had succeeded, would have set the civilization of the world back a hundred years.
Sep 16, 1919
I can not conceive a motive adequate to hold men off from this thing.
Sep 16, 1919
I have come to get a consciousness of your support and of your sentiment, at a time in the history of the world.
Sep 16, 1919
We are the trustees of humanity, and we must see that we redeem the pledges which are always implicit in so great a trusteeship.
Sep 16, 1919
I take leave to say, more critical than has ever been known during the history of the United States.
Sep 14, 1919
This is the field of the single unconquerable force that there is in the world, and when the world learns, as it will learn, that America has put her whole force into the common harness of civilization, then it will know that the wheels…
Sep 14, 1919
Every drop of blood that I have in me gets up and shouts when I think of the opportunity that America has.
Sep 14, 1919
Nothing has impressed me more, or impressed me more painfully, than the degree in which the rest of the world trusts us and looks to us.
Sep 14, 1919
The world will be turned back to cynicism if America goes back on it.
Sep 14, 1919
Do you know of any business or undertaking in which you can get the advantage without assuming the responsibility?
Sep 14, 1919
I ask you even as a business proposition whether it is more useful to trade with a cynic or with an optimist.
Sep 14, 1919
The real difficulty in all political reform is to know whether you can translate your theories into facts or not.
Sep 14, 1919
I have always taken this attitude toward facts, that I never let them get me if I see them coming first.
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