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.
May 19, 1914
Colonel George W. Goethals, now Governor of the Panama Canal, shall be Chairman of this committee.
May 19, 1914
The committee is authorized to spend such sums as may be available for printing, postage, correspondence, employment of clerks, and other necessary expenses connected with formally and officially opening the Panama Canal, as may be…
May 15, 1914
No man who thinks first of himself and afterwards of his country can call himself an American.
May 15, 1914
You need alliances when you are not strong, and you are weak only when you are not true to yourself.
May 10, 1914
We are expected to put the utmost energy of every power that we have into the service of our fellow-men, never sparing ourselves, not condescending to think of what is going to happen to ourselves, but ready, if need be, to go to the utter…
May 10, 1914
I never went into battle; I never was under fire; but I fancy that there are some things just as hard to do as to go under fire.
Apr 29, 1914
The time during which a consul may be unavoidably detained at his post while waiting for a conveyance to the United States, after delivering up the office, may be included in his home transit so far as not to exceed in all the maximum time…
Apr 19, 1914
We seek to maintain the dignity and authority of the United States only because we wish always to keep our great influence unimpaired for the uses of liberty, both in the United States and wherever else it may be employed for the benefit…
Apr 19, 1914
There can in what we do be no thought of aggression or of selfish aggrandizement.
Apr 19, 1914
I therefore come to ask your approval that I should use the armed forces of the United States in such ways and to such an extent as may be necessary to obtain from General Huerta and his adherents the fullest recognition of the rights and…
Mar 4, 1914
We are too big, too powerful, too self-respecting a nation to interpret with a too strained or refined reading the words of our own promises.
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