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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.

Quotes by year · 191419211,359 total · peak 1919 (468)
1914: 94 quotes1915: 10 quotes1916: 265 quotes1917: 223 quotes1918: 137 quotes1919: 468 quotes1920: 133 quotes1921: 29 quotes
Jan 2, 1921

We shall not witness an immediate satisfactory adjustment of domestic and international trade relations.

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Jan 2, 1921

I am returning without my signature, Senate Joint Resolution 212, 'Joint Resolution directing the War Finance Corporation to take certain action for the relief of the present depression in the agricultural sections of the country, and for…

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Jan 2, 1921

I am in full sympathy with every sound proposal to promote foreign trade along sound business lines.

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Jan 2, 1921

For many months there has been a demand that war agencies should be abolished and that there should be less Government interference with business.

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Dec 29, 1920

It waits with acquiescence, in the first place, for laws which will effectively prohibit and prevent such interlocking of the personnel of the directorates of great corporations—banks and railroads, industrial, commercial and public…

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Dec 29, 1920

The soundness of the principle embodied in Section io seems generally to be admitted.

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Dec 21, 1920

Such records, files, reports, copies of contracts, correspondence, and proceedings transferred under this order, and such personnel detailed or assigned thereunder, as are stated in a written notice to the Secretary of the Federal Trade…

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Dec 21, 1920

The said United States Fuel Administration is hereby authorized to procure information in reference to the business of coal and coke producers and distributors in the manner provided for in Sections 6 and 9 of the Act of Congress approved…

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Dec 21, 1920

The authorization granted to the United States Fuel Administration and the United States Fuel Administrator by paragraph 5 of the executive order of July 3, 1918, was and is terminated as of January 1st, 1920, and the said powers were and…

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Dec 12, 1920

Three and a half million children are facing starvation in Central Europe.

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Dec 12, 1920

Ten dollars contributed through the European Relief Council will save the life of one child.

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Dec 12, 1920

I shall adopt twenty of these children as my own temporary wards.

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Dec 12, 1920

I suggest to my fellow-countrymen that the circles around their Christmas trees will be incomplete unless, mingled with their own expectant children, they shall visualize some of the waifs of Central Europe.

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Dec 9, 1920

A court shall not, by a single sentence which does not include dishonorable discharge, adjudge against a soldier:

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Dec 9, 1920

Dishonorable discharge, in itself a severe punishment, should be adjudged and approved only when it is clear that the accused should be separated from the service.

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Dec 9, 1920

The reviewing authority should suspend the whole of a sentence when it appears to him that such action will promote the discipline of his command.

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Dec 8, 1920

Provided that the enjoyment by any work of the rights and benefits conferred by the Copyright Act of March 4, 1909, and the acts amendatory thereof, including the Act of December 18, 1919, shall be conditional upon compliance with the…

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Dec 8, 1920

Copyright shall include the special benefit of Section 1 (e) of the Copyright Act of March 4, 1909, namely copyright controlling the parts of instruments serving to reproduce mechanically the musical work.

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Dec 8, 1920

Nothing in this proclamation shall be construed to abrogate or limit any rights and benefits conferred under the reciprocal arrangements with Denmark heretofore proclaimed.

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Dec 7, 1920

It now gives me pleasure to lay before the Congress, for its information, a statement of all the expenditures of the American commission to negotiate peace for the entire period of its existence from December 1, 1918, to December 31, 1919.

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Dec 6, 1920

It is hereby ordered, under authority found in the act of June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six

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Dec 6, 1920

The nation's gratitude must be effectively revealed to them by the most ample provision for their medical care and treatment as well as for their vocational training and placement.

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Dec 6, 1920

Simplification of the income and profits taxes has become an immediate necessity.

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Dec 6, 1920

By this faith, and by this faith alone, can the world be lifted out of its present confusion and despair.

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Dec 6, 1920

I earnestly suggest that the Congress authorize the Treasury of the United States to make to the struggling government of Armenia such a loan as was made to several of the Allied governments during the war.

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