Warren G. Harding: “There is a call to make the alien respect our institutions while he accepts our hospitality.”

Our constitutional limitations do not forbid the exercise of a moral influence, the measure of which is not less than the high purposes we have sought to serve.

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…

We ask no one to assume responsibility for us; we assume no responsibility which others must bear for themselves, unless nationality is hopelessly swallowed up in internationalism.

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.