Our whole duty, for the present, at any rate, is summed up in this motto, "America first."

Woodrow Wilson

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American foreign policy Isolationism

Speaker

Woodrow Wilson

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

Occupation

American President Nobel laureate National leader Politician

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United States

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Citation

Wilson, Woodrow. "America First." Associated Press Luncheon. 20 Apr. 1915, New York City, NY, USA. Address.

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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome.

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Ethel Snowden
Source
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1915 1910s 20th century
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Citation

Snowden, Ethel. "Women and War." Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the National Education Association. 1915.

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We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

Winston Churchill

Speech to the Canadian Parliament, December 30, 1941

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Winston Churchill
Source
Speech to the Canadian Parliament, December 30, 1941
Medium
Speech
Genre
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Language
English
Time
1941 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Churchill, Winston. "Some Chicken! Some Neck!" Joint session of Canadian Parliament. 30 Dec. 1941, Ottawa, Canada. Address.

Current Citation

Churchill, Winston. "Some chicken! Some neck!', 30 December 1941, Parliament, Ottawa." Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches. A&C Black, 2013.