1917: Woodrow Wilson to Congress asking for a declaration of war.
1917: Progressive Republican George W. Norris, a supporter of Wilson's domestic programs, opposing his call to enter the war.
1917: Title of George M. Cohan's song, written on the day the US declared war on Germany.
1917: Col Charles E. Stanton, speaking for Gen John Pershing, leader of the American Expeditionary Forces on July 4. (Pershing MAY have uttered these words earlier on June 24.)
1917: William Tyler Page's submission in a national contest. Adopted by Congress as our Official Creed.
WWI: Herbert Hoover's slogan, as National Food Administrator for the Council of National Defense.
WWI: The order give to American troops to get out of the trenches and to cross 'no man's land' in order to charge the German lines with fixed bayonets.
1918: From Wilson's address to Congress, outlining his Fourteen Point plan, the first of which, called for an end to secret alliances.
1918: From 'The Marine's Hymn,' first published by the Marines in 1918.
1918: Attributed to Gen John J. Pershing, used by American troops in late 1918 in France, as they looked forward to an early return from the war.
1918: Eugene V. Debs during his trial in U.S. v Debs on charges of violating the Espionage Act of 1917, referring to his kinship with all living things.
1919: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., writing the decision for Schenck v. United States, which upheld Schenck's conviction for distributing leaflets urging draftees to oppose the war.
1919: Words describing the éminence grise role played by Col Edward M. House, close adviser and confidant of President Wilson. He helped formulate the Fourteen Points, but their relationship was strained when he suggested compromise.
1919: (June) France's Clemenceau referring to Wilson who compromised on several of the 14 points.
1919: Then Mass Governor Calvin Coolidge, in a telegram to American Federation of Labor leader Samuel Gompers, who had complained about the firing of 19 police officers.
1919: Mrs Edith Wilson on her role during her husbands illness.
1920: Warren G. Harding on what America needed.
1920: Dark horse candidate Warren G. Harding on hearing of his nomination by the Republicans for the presidency.
1920: A young boy allegedly made this statement to 'Shoeless Joe' Jackson as he left a courtroom during the Black Sox scandal.
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