Dec 24, 1918
It has been a hard thing to take part in directing what you did without coming over and helping you do it.
Woodrow Wilson
The Public Record
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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Dec 24, 1918
How everybody at home is proud of you; how everybody at home has followed every movement of this great Army with confidence and affection; and how the whole people of the United States are now waiting to welcome you home with an acclaim…
Dec 24, 1918
I feel a comradeship with you to-day which is delightful as I look about upon these undisturbed fields and think of the terrible scenes through which you have gone and realize now that the quiet peace, the tranquillity of settled hope, has…
Dec 24, 1918
It is an ancient friendship, but it has been renewed and has taken on a new youth.
Dec 24, 1918
Because this is a war into which our country, like these countries we have been so proud to stand by, has put its whole heart, and the reason that we are proud of you is that you have put your heart into it; you have done your duty, and…
Dec 20, 1918
If we do not heed the mandates of mankind we shall make ourselves the most conspicuous and deserved failures in the history of the world.
Dec 20, 1918
The university spirit is intolerant of all the things that put the human mind under restraint.
Dec 20, 1918
The task of those who are gathered here, or will presently be gathered here, to make the settlements of this peace is greatly simplified by the fact that they are masters of no one; they are the servants of mankind.
Dec 20, 1918
Now at last the spirit of truth, the spirit to which universities have devoted themselves, has prevailed and is triumphant.
Dec 20, 1918
The triumph of freedom in this war means that spirits of that sort now dominate the world.
Dec 20, 1918
If the central powers had dared to discuss the purposes of this war for a single fortnight, it never would have happened.
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