I object to and cannot approve that part of this legislation with reference to wartime prohibition.
The covenant in another portion guarantees to the members the independent control of their domestic questions.
The most dangerous thing for a bad cause is to expose it to the opinion of the world.
Reject this treaty, impair it, and this is the consequence to the laboring men of the world.
There is no validity in a vote, either by the council or the assembly, in which we do not concur.
I ordered their sons being put in the most difficult parts of the battle line, where death was certain, as in the impenetrable difficulties ...
Just so certainly as they do that, my fellow citizens, war will be in the far background, war will be pushed out of that foreground of terro...
Every man regards his own advice as best, and I dare say every man mixes his own advice with some thought of his own interest.
The council advises, and it cannot advise without the vote of the United States.
We are not dealing with the kind of document which this is represented by some gentlemen to be.
There is only one power to put behind the liberation of mankind, and that is the power of mankind.
The overwhelming majority of them demand the ratification of this treaty.
Gov. Carey is quite right in saying that no document ever drew upon it more widespread discussion than the great treaty of peace with which ...
We saved the liberties of the world, and we must stand by the liberties of the world.
It is a peace of liberation.
We can not draw back.
The world did not realize in 1914 that it had come to the final grapple of principle.
We either go in with the other free peoples of the world to guarantee the peace of the world now, or we stay out.