I am confident what that decision is going to be because I can see the tide of sentiment and the tide of conviction rising in this country i...
There is not a nation in Europe that can stand that for six months.
An absolute isolation, a boycott.
We can not do any effective thinking for the world until we know that there is settled peace.
This is the first treaty ever framed by such an international convention, whose object was not to serve and defend governments but to serve ...
It is your refusal, my fellow students, to grow up.
I have come to get a consciousness of your support and of your sentiment, at a time in the history of the world.
We are under compulsion to stay in the partnership.
I take leave to say, more critical than has ever been known during the history of the United States.
We are the trustees of humanity, and we must see that we redeem the pledges which are always implicit in so great a trusteeship.
I can not conceive a motive adequate to hold men off from this thing.
We can not with honor reverse it now.
The thing that Germany attempted, if it had succeeded, would have set the civilization of the world back a hundred years.
We made the choice in April, 1917.
Why should they bless me?
We are at liberty to act without waiting for other nations to act.
We can not now turn back.
The issue is nothing else.
