The choice we make for ourselves must be made with a moderation of counsel and a temperateness of judgment befitting our character and our motives as a nation. The challenge is to all mankind.ģEach nation must decide for itself how it will meet it. American ships have been sunk, American lives taken in ways which it has stirred us very deeply to learn of but the ships and people of other neutral and friendly nations have been sunk and overwhelmed in the waters in the same way. In this speech before Congress, President Woodrow Wilson made the case for America’s entry into World War I.ġI have called the Congress into extraordinary session because there are serious, very serious, choices of policy to be made, and made immediately …ĢThe present German submarine warfare against commerce is a warfare against mankind.
Woodrow Wilson Requests War (April 2, 1917)
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