Let no one assume that our provision for maintained good fortune at home, and our unwillingness to assume the correction of all the ills of the world, means a reluctance to cooperate with other peoples or to assume every just obligation to promote human advancement anywhere in the world.
Harding reassures that the U.S. is willing to cooperate internationally without overextending itself.
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With all my heart I wish restoration to the peoples blighted by the awful World War, but the process of restoration does not lie in our acceptance of like conditions.
More, it is vital to the preservation of many of our own industries which contribute so notably to the very lifeblood of our Nation.
We saw partisan lines utterly obliterated when war imperiled, and our faith in the Republic was riveted anew.
We have been giving, and are giving now, of our influence and appeals to minimize the likelihood of war and throw off the crushing burdens of armament.