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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.
Everybody concerned in the settlement knows that it must be a people's peace, that nothing must be done in the settlement of the issues of the war which is not as handsome as the great achievements of the armies of the United States and…
The triumph of freedom in this war means that spirits of that sort now dominate the world.
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.
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.
If the central powers had dared to discuss the purposes of this war for a single fortnight, it never would have happened.
The university spirit is intolerant of all the things that put the human mind under restraint.
Now at last the spirit of truth, the spirit to which universities have devoted themselves, has prevailed and is triumphant.
My conception of the league of nations is just this, that it shall operate as the organized moral force of men throughout the world.
The old policy may be changed much or little, but surely it cannot wisely be left as it was.
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