Sep 3, 1919
We are the friends of liberty; we have joined with the rest of mankind in securing the guarantees of liberty; we stand here with you the eternal champions of what is right, and may God keep us in the covenant that we have formed.
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 3, 1919
The league of nations is the only thing that can prevent the recurrence of this dreadful catastrophe and redeem our promises.
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
We engage in the first sentence of Article X to respect and preserve from external aggression the territorial integrity and the existing political independence not only of the other member States, but of all States.
Sep 3, 1919
The only people I owe any report to are you and the other citizens of the United States.
Sep 3, 1919
She attempted an intolerable thing, and she must be made to pay for the attempt.
Sep 3, 1919
There is a method of adjustment in that treaty by which the reparation shall not be pressed beyond the point which Germany can pay.
Sep 3, 1919
Parties, my fellow citizens, are intended to embody in action different policies of government.
Sep 3, 1919
If this covenant accomplished little more than the abolition of private arrangements between great powers, it would have gone far toward stabilizing the peace of the world
Sep 3, 1919
I am making this journey as an American and as a champion of rights which America believes in;
Sep 3, 1919
Shall we or shall we not sustain the first great act of international justice?
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