Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

In our first year of war

This book opens with the second inaugural address and contains the President's messages and addresses since the United States was forced to take up arms against Germany. These pages may be said to picture not only official phases of the great crisis, but also the highest signi...

Chapters

6. Chapter 6

It has long been the honored custom of our people to turn in the fruitful autumn of the year in praise and thanksgiving to Almighty God for His many blessings and mercies to us...

5. Chapter 5

But they will make no headway. The false betray themselves always in every accent. It is only friends and partisans of the German Government whom we have already identified who...

4. Chapter 4

It is incomprehensible to me how any frank or honest person could doubt or question my position with regard to the war and its objects. I have again and again stated the very se...

7. Chapter 7

But the fact that a wrong use has been made of a just idea is no reason why a right use should not be made of it. It ought to be brought under the patronage of its real friends....

3. Chapter 3

It is evident to every thinking man that our industries, on the farms, in the shipyards, in the mines, in the factories, must be made more prolific and more efficient than ever,...

2. Chapter 2

I shall take the liberty of suggesting, through the several executive departments of the Government, for the consideration of your committees measures for the accomplishment of...

1. Chapter 1

This book opens with the second inaugural address and contains the President's messages and addresses since the United States was forced to take up arms against Germany. These p...

8. Chapter 8

The public interest must be first served, and in addition the financial interests of the Government and the financial interests of the railways must be brought under a common di...

9. Chapter 9

But, whatever the results of the parleys at Brest-Litovsk, whatever the confusions of counsel and of purpose in the utterances of the spokesmen of the Central Empires, they have...