‘We are Americans. We in our turn serve America, and can serve her with no private purpose. We must use her flag as she has always used it. We are accountable at the bar of history and must plead in utter frankness what purpose it is we seek to serve.’
This book is a collection of speeches given by Woodrow Wilson after the United States entered World War I. Some of the speeches given were anything but neutral and were propagandistic in order to increase support for the American war effort. Other speeches presented the solid reality of the policies that must be taken during wartime. Today, these speeches serve as important historical documents that provide us with the mood of the American political class during the First World War.
Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the United States. As president, he led the United States into World War I and established an activist foreign policy known as Wilsonianism.