Warren G. Harding: “We do not seek to become an international dictator because of its power.”

It will be helpful to ourselves and it will improve conditions among our debtors if funding and the settlement of defaulted interest may be negotiated.

We do not seek a selfish aloofness, and we could not profit by it, were it possible.

We ought not to find these partisan lines obstructing the expeditious solution of the urgent problems of peace.

There is vastly greater security, immensely more of the national viewpoint, much larger and prompter accomplishment where our divisions are along party lines, in the broader and loftier sense, than to divide geographically, or according to…