Sep 7, 1919
The bulk of it is concerned with arrangements under which all the members of the league—that means everybody but Germany and dismembered Turkey—agree that they never will go to war without first having done one or other of two…
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 7, 1919
We have gone so far in our assertions of popular right that we not only say that the people have a right to have a government that suits them, but that they have a right to change it in any respect at any time.
Sep 5, 1919
The whole world needs that steadiness, and the American people are the makeweight in the fortunes of mankind.
Sep 5, 1919
The world is desperately in need of the settled conditions of peace, and it can not wait much longer.
Sep 5, 1919
I am very grateful; I may say in parentheses, that I did not have to make that choice.
Sep 5, 1919
We have promised the people of the Philippine Islands that we will set them free.
Sep 5, 1919
It is the first great international agreement in the history of mankind where the principle adopted has been, not the power of the strong but the right of the weak.
Sep 4, 1919
I have come away from Washington to discuss them because apparently it is difficult to discuss them in Washington.
Sep 4, 1919
The greatest nationalist is the man who wants his nation to be the greatest nation.
Sep 3, 1919
Parties, my fellow citizens, are intended to embody in action different policies of government.
Sep 3, 1919
Under the covenant of the league of nations we can mind other peoples' business,
Sep 3, 1919
It is for the first time in the history of international transactions an act of systematic justice and not an act of grabbing and seizing.
Sep 3, 1919
Shall we or shall we not sustain the first great act of international justice?
Sep 3, 1919
She attempted an intolerable thing, and she must be made to pay for the attempt.
Sep 3, 1919
I have come to report to you upon the work which the representatives of the United States attempted to do at the conference of peace on the other side of the sea.
Sep 3, 1919
I am making this journey as an American and as a champion of rights which America believes in;
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