Jan 2, 1919
we are friends of these people and it is our duty as their friends to see to it that some kind of protection is thrown around them.
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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Jan 2, 1919
Many political changes have centered about Rome, from the time when from a little city she grew to be the mistress of an empire.
Jan 2, 1919
I have rejoiced personally in the partnership of the Italian and the American people.
Jan 2, 1919
I have been very much touched by the generous terms of the address which you have just read.
Dec 29, 1918
There is only one thing that can bind peoples together and that is a common devotion to right.
Dec 29, 1918
If the future had nothing for us but a new attempt to keep the world at a right poise by a balance of power, the United States would take no interest.
Dec 29, 1918
It takes a real soldier to know that unity of command is the secret of success, and that unity of command did swing the power of the nations into a mighty force.
Dec 29, 1918
Good will is the forerunner of trade, and trade is the great amicable instrument of the world on that account.
Dec 29, 1918
We are not men because we have skill of hand, but we are men because we have elevation of spirit.
Dec 27, 1918
The peoples of the world want peace and they want it now, not merely by conquest of arms but by agreement of mind.
Dec 27, 1918
The men who have fought in this war have been the men from free nations who were determined that that sort of thing should end now and forever.
Dec 27, 1918
The harness of precedent is sometimes a very sad and harassing trammel.
Dec 27, 1918
The whisper of grief that has blown all through the world is now silent, and the sun of hope seems to spread its rays and to change the earth with a new prospect of happiness.
Dec 27, 1918
That sturdy, serene soldier stood and uttered, not the words of triumph, but the simple words of affection for his soldiers, and the conviction which he summed up, in a sentence which I will not try accurately to quote but reproduce in its…
Dec 27, 1918
I do not believe that it was fancy on my part that I heard in the voice of welcome uttered in the streets of this great city and in the streets of Paris something more than a personal welcome.
Dec 27, 1918
I am perfectly aware that I have in me all the insurgent elements of the human race.
Dec 27, 1918
It wars perfectly natural to break this precedent, natural because the demand for intimate conference took precedence over every other duty.
Dec 27, 1918
The stern covenanter tradition that is behind me sends many an echo down the years.
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