1911: Theodore Roosevelt at UC Berkeley explaining that in so doing he let Congress debate not the canal, but him.
1911: Carrie Chapman Catt, in a Stockholm speech, 'Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?' on the inevitability of women's rights being recognized.
1912: Theodore Roosevelt's concluding words at the Progressive Party Convention.
1912: Theodore Roosevelt delivering a 90-minute speech, after being shot by John Nepomuk Schrank, who had claimed McKinley's ghost told him to shoot TR.
1912: President Taft's policy, which he characterized as 'substituting dollars for bullets' and as 'idealistic, humanitarian.'
1913: Banners carried on a 5000 women march down Pennsylvania Avenue, demanding the right to vote.
1914: President Woodrow Wilson's call for American policy after the outbreak of war in Europe.
1915: Lyrics from a hit song opposing involvement in the European war.
1915: Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, the only true pacifist in Wilson's Cabinet, indicating the US and England were not without blame in the Lusitania incident.
1915: Henry Ford's stated goal on chartering the Scandinavian liner Oscar II as the Peace Ship, to carry a delegation to Europe in December.
1915: Former President Roosevelt, in New York, who also said on another occasion, 'There is room here ...only for those who are Americans and nothing else.'
No specific date: Quotation falsely attributed to Henry Ford, who actually called it tradition, saying, 'We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present...'
1916: Phrase coined by Theodore Roosevelt, attacking Wilson and the tendency to use words that are misleading.
1916: Roosevelt's appellation for Wilson; he also called Wilson cowardly and ladylike, saying he was supported by 'flubdubs,' 'mollycoddles,' and 'flapdoddle pacifists.'
1916: A Democratic slogan, never used by Wilson himself, who believed entry into the war was inevitable.
1917: President Wilson addressing the US Senate, explaining that peace can only last if it is between equals.
1917: Roosevelt on what we need to do, if we are to become a great nation; he continued to say, 'Man was never intended to become an oyster.'
1917: From the Zimmermann Note, sent from the German foreign minister, to the German minister in Mexico, announcing Germany's intentions and proposing an alliance with Mexico against the US; after being intercepted, it helped prompt the US to declare war on Germany.
1917: President Wilson referring to isolationist Republicans who had 'rendered the government of the United States helpless & contemptible,' by filibustering a bill to arm merchant ships. Wilson then accomplished the act through an executive order.
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