Sep 10, 1919
What I want to impress upon you to-day is that it is this treaty or none.
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 9, 1919
We may think that they finished that job, but they will tell you they did not; that unless we see to it that peace is made secure, they will have the job to do over again.
Sep 9, 1919
I am glad to get out to see the real folks, to feel the touch of their hand, and know, as I have come to know, how the Nation stands together in the common purpose to complete what the boys did who carried their guns with them over the sea.
Sep 9, 1919
We have managed in the process of civilization, my fellow citizens, to make a world that can not be taken to pieces.
Sep 9, 1919
There is only one way to have peace, and that is to have it by the concurrence of the minds of the world.
Sep 8, 1919
Our railroads at this moment are not adequate to moving the commerce of this country.
Sep 8, 1919
The world is not going to settle down, my fellow citizens, until it knows what part the United States is going to play in the peace.
Sep 8, 1919
The principle is that the interests of capital and the interests of labor are not different but the same.
Sep 8, 1919
I feel rather that I am going about to hold counsel with my fellow countrymen concerning the most honorable and distinguished course which our great country can take at this turning point in the history of the world.
Sep 8, 1919
I believe, my fellow countrymen, that the only people in Europe who instinctively realized what was going to happen and what did happen in 1914 was the French people.
Sep 8, 1919
The entrance examination, to use my own parlance, into my confidence is, 'Where do you put America in your thoughts? Do you put it first, always first, unquestionably first?'
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