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.
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 11, 1919
I am never afraid that the United States will fail to perform its international obligations.
Sep 11, 1919
It is the first attempt ever made to settle the affairs of the world according to the wishes of the people in the parts of the world that were being dealt with.
Sep 11, 1919
If you could get 10 per cent insurance of your fortunes in respect of peace, wouldn't you rather take it than no insurance at all?
Sep 10, 1919
The next war would have to be paid for in American blood and American money.
Sep 10, 1919
I want to say to you very solemnly that, notwithstanding the splendid achievement of our soldiers on the other side of the sea, who I do not hesitate to say saved the world, notwithstanding the noble things that they did, their task is…
Sep 10, 1919
If they can not go in with a whoop, there is no use of their going in at all.
Sep 10, 1919
We fought Germany in order that there should be a world fit to live in.
Sep 10, 1919
I am not come from Washington so much to advise you as to get in touch with you.
Sep 10, 1919
Our immediate duty, therefore, my fellow countrymen, is to see that no minority, no class, no special interest, no matter how respectable, how rich, how poor, shall get control of the affairs of the United States.
Sep 10, 1919
America is less exhausted by the recent war than the other belligerents; she is not exhausted at all.
Sep 10, 1919
We were caught in this thing by the action of a nation utterly unlike ourselves.
Sep 10, 1919
America is going to grow more and more powerful; and the more powerful she is the more inevitable it is that she should be trustee for the peace of the world.
Sep 10, 1919
I like to come out and feel once more the thing that is the only real thing in public affairs, and that is the great movement of public opinion in the United States.
Sep 10, 1919
They do not know what the purposes are that are running through the hearts and minds of the people of this great country.
Sep 10, 1919
Shall the great sacrifice that we made in this war be in vain, or shall it not?
Sep 10, 1919
The only way to keep men from agitating against grievances is to remove the grievances.
Sep 10, 1919
I venture to think that there are thousands of mothers and fathers and wives and sisters and sweethearts in this country who are never going to forget.
Sep 10, 1919
What I want to impress upon you to-day is that it is this treaty or none.
Sep 10, 1919
The fundamental principle of this treaty is a principle never acknowledged before.
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