Oct 26, 1919
In all matters having to do with the personal habits and customs of large numbers of our people we must be certain that the established processes of legal change are followed.
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 24, 1919
Reject this treaty, impair it, and this is the consequence to the laboring men of the world.
Sep 24, 1919
The most dangerous thing for a bad cause is to expose it to the opinion of the world.
Sep 24, 1919
The council advises, and it cannot advise without the vote of the United States.
Sep 24, 1919
The covenant in another portion guarantees to the members the independent control of their domestic questions.
Sep 24, 1919
We are not dealing with the kind of document which this is represented by some gentlemen to be.
Sep 24, 1919
I ordered their sons being put in the most difficult parts of the battle line, where death was certain, as in the impenetrable difficulties of the forest of Argonne.
Sep 24, 1919
Every man regards his own advice as best, and I dare say every man mixes his own advice with some thought of his own interest.
Sep 24, 1919
There is only one power to put behind the liberation of mankind, and that is the power of mankind.
Sep 24, 1919
There is no validity in a vote, either by the council or the assembly, in which we do not concur.
Sep 24, 1919
Just so certainly as they do that, my fellow citizens, war will be in the far background, war will be pushed out of that foreground of terror in which it has kept the world for generation after generation.
Sep 23, 1919
It is the most remarkable document, I venture to say, in human history, because in it is recorded a complete reversal of the processes of government which had gone on throughout practically the whole history of mankind.
Sep 23, 1919
Gov. Carey is quite right in saying that no document ever drew upon it more widespread discussion than the great treaty of peace with which your representatives returned from Paris.
Sep 23, 1919
No nation that could be reached by the conclusions of this conference was obliged to accept the authority of a government by which it did not wish to be controlled.
Sep 23, 1919
The overwhelming majority of them demand the ratification of this treaty.
Sep 23, 1919
We either go in with the other free peoples of the world to guarantee the peace of the world now, or we stay out.
Sep 23, 1919
We saved the liberties of the world, and we must stand by the liberties of the world.
Sep 23, 1919
The world did not realize in 1914 that it had come to the final grapple of principle.
Sep 22, 1919
Either we are going to guarantee civilization or we are going to abandon it.
Sep 22, 1919
It does not make any difference how long the fight or how difficult the fight, it is going to be won, and triumphantly won.
Sep 22, 1919
The Government of the United States speaks for the people of the United States, that it is not anybody's master, but the servant of a great people.
Sep 22, 1919
I would despair of making any adequate remarks about so great a matter as the treaty of peace or the league of nations.
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