“Do you never stop to reflect just what it is that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty of self-governing peoples”

—  Woodrow Wilson

Speech on Military Preparedness http://books.google.com/books?id=-rIqAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=RA9-PA11&amp;dq=PITTSBURGH, Pittsburgh (29 January 1916)&lt;!--PWW 36:28-33--&gt; <br class="br">1910s <br class="br">Context: Do you never stop to reflect just what it is that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another, it is for the sovereignty of self-governing peoples, and her example, her assistance, her encouragement, has thrilled two continents in this Western World with all the fine impulses which have built up human liberty on both sides of the water.

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