Sep 12, 1919
It would indeed be ungracious if I did not say how much I have appreciated your welcome.
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 12, 1919
It is not going to draw apart and it is not going to desert the nations of the world.
Sep 12, 1919
I want, because I played only a small part in framing it, that it is a sound and good treaty.
Sep 12, 1919
I want the great result which I know is at the heart of the people that I am trying to serve.
Sep 12, 1919
America responds to nothing so quickly or unanimously as a great moral challenge.
Sep 11, 1919
Nobody can guarantee the world against the ugly passions that sometimes get abroad.
Sep 11, 1919
Europe was full of people under the iron and relentless hand of military power, and that hand has been removed and crushed.
Sep 11, 1919
You never could divine it from the discussion of the men who are opposed to it.
Sep 11, 1919
Let men discount the proposed arrangements as much as they will; let us regard it as an insurance policy.
Sep 11, 1919
It says that nothing in the covenant shall be interpreted as impairing the validity of the Monroe doctrine.
Sep 11, 1919
Frightened, my fellow citizens? Why, it is the only possible or conceivable guaranty against the wars that have ravaged the world.
Sep 11, 1919
I say that we have an immense insurance against war, and that is exactly what this great covenant does.
Sep 11, 1919
We set this Nation up with the profession that we wanted to set an example of liberty not only, but to lead the world in the paths of liberty and justice and of right.
Sep 11, 1919
America has to do at this moment nothing less than prove to the world whether she has meant what she said in the past.
Sep 11, 1919
Unless America takes part in this treaty, my fellow citizens, the world is going to lose heart.
Sep 11, 1919
If you suspect your friend of being a fool, the best way you can prove it or disprove it is by advising him to hire a hall.
Sep 11, 1919
Washington is a very interesting place, but it is a very lonely place.
Sep 11, 1919
Nothing is going to keep this world fit to live in like exposing in public debate every crooked thing that is going on.
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