Warren G. Harding: “Reclamation and irrigation projects, where waste land may be made available for settlement and productivity, are worthy…”

It is not an unworthy selfishness to seek to save ourselves, when the processes of that salvation are not only not denied to others, but commended to them.

Much has been said about the protective policy for ourselves making it impossible for our debtors to discharge their obligations to us.

The repeal of war-time legislation and the automatic expirations which attended the peace proclamations have put an end to these emergency excesses but I have the wish to go further than that.

Sensible of every obligation of humanity, commerce and finance, linked as they are in the present world condition, it is not to be argued that we need destroy ourselves to be helpful to others.