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.
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 8, 1919
It is a great method of common counsel with regard to the common interests of mankind.
Sep 8, 1919
I do not feel that I am on a political errand, even in the broad sense of that term.
Sep 8, 1919
We ought to give our thought to this, gentlemen: America, though we do not like to admit it, has been very provincial in regard to the world's business.
Sep 8, 1919
Our railroads at this moment are not adequate to moving the commerce of this country.
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
This was a war to make similar wars impossible, and merely to win this war and stop at that is to make it certain that we shall have to fight another and a final one.
Sep 8, 1919
To hear some gentlemen you would think it was an arrangement for the inconvenience of the United States, whereas, as a matter of fact, my fellow citizens, it is a world settlement, the first ever attempted.
Sep 7, 1919
The only force you can substitute for an armed mankind is the concerted force of the combined action of mankind through the instrumentality of all the enlightened Governments of the world.
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