Warren G. Harding: “We would rejoice to help rehabilitate currency systems and facilitate all commerce which does not drag us to the very…”

I would like the Congress and the people of the Nation to believe that in a firm and considerate way we are insistent on American rights wherever they may be questioned, and deny no rights of others in the assertion of our own.

After all there is less difference about the part this great Republic shall play in furthering peace and advancing humanity than in the manner of playing it.

Those who assume that we played our part in the World War and later took ourselves aloof and apart, unmindful of world obligations, give scant credit to the helpful part we assume in international relationships.

The four-power pact, which abolishes every probability of war on the Pacific, has brought new confidence in a maintained peace, and I can well believe it might be made a model for like assurances wherever in the world any common interests…