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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
Sep 17, 1919

Not only that, but I do insist that they should be debated more fairly.

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Sep 17, 1919

There is not the least danger that America, after a treaty has been drawn up exactly along the specifications stipulated by America, will desert its associates.

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Sep 17, 1919

We have got to know what the truth is and insist that everybody shall know what the truth is, and, above all things else, we must see that the United States is not defeated of its destiny.

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Sep 17, 1919

I admit that there are debatable things, but I do not admit that they need be debated so long.

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Sep 17, 1919

I don't know your name; I don't know your face; but your manners are very familiar.

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Sep 17, 1919

This is a treaty not merely for the peoples who were represented at the peace table but for the people who were the subjects of the governments whose wrongs were forever ended by the victory on the fields of France.

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Sep 17, 1919

It is our duty to look in the face the real circumstances of the world in order that we may not be unfaithful to the great duty which America undertook in the hour and day of her birth.

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Sep 17, 1919

The immediate need of this country and of the world is peace not only, but settled peace, peace upon a definite and well-understood foundation.

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Sep 17, 1919

We are a people that redeems its honor. We are not, and never will be, quitters.

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Sep 17, 1919

The characteristic of this treaty is that it gives liberty to peoples who never could have won it for themselves.

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Sep 17, 1919

We can not release the great industrial and economic power of America and let it run free until there are channels that are free in which it can run.

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Sep 17, 1919

Germany felt the pinch of the blockade more than she felt the stress of the blow.

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