President Woodrow Wilson addressing the United States Congress on April 2, 1917, asking for a declaration of war on Germany. From The Nations at War by Willis J. Abbot, 1918 Edition.
President Wilson delivering the message in which he called on Congress to declare a state of war between the United States and the Imperial German Government
"'No peace can last or ought to last which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed . . .''I am proposing government by the consent of the governed; that freedom of the seas which in international conference after conference representatives of the United States have urged . . . and that moderation of armaments which makes of armies and navies a power for order merely . . . These are American principles, American policies . . . They are the principles of mankind and must prevail.'"
Excerpts from the address of United States President Woodrow Wilson to the United States Senate, January 22, 1917, as quoted in John Dos Passos's Mr. Wilson's War. Wilson called for 'peace without victory.'
Mr. Wilson's War by John Dos Passos, page 196, copyright © 1962, 2013 by John Dos Passos, publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
1917-01-22, 1917, January, Woodrow Wilson, Wilson, Peace, peace, peace without victory
