Nobody can guarantee the world against the ugly passions that sometimes get abroad.
If we fail them, God help the world! Then despair will ensue.
You never could divine it from the discussion of the men who are opposed to it.
I have not come to paint pictures of the fancy.
It says that nothing in the covenant shall be interpreted as impairing the validity of the Monroe doctrine.
Frightened, my fellow citizens? Why, it is the only possible or conceivable guaranty against the wars that have ravaged the world.
Let me take them one by one.
Let men discount the proposed arrangements as much as they will; let us regard it as an insurance policy.
I venture to think that there are thousands of mothers and fathers and wives and sisters and sweethearts in this country who are never going...
The next war would have to be paid for in American blood and American money.
America is less exhausted by the recent war than the other belligerents; she is not exhausted at all.
We fought Germany in order that there should be a world fit to live in.
I am not come from Washington so much to advise you as to get in touch with you.
Our immediate duty, therefore, my fellow countrymen, is to see that no minority, no class, no special interest, no matter how respectable, h...
I like to come out and feel once more the thing that is the only real thing in public affairs, and that is the great movement of public opin...
We were caught in this thing by the action of a nation utterly unlike ourselves.
God bless you, Mr. President; God bless the league of nations.
America is going to grow more and more powerful; and the more powerful she is the more inevitable it is that she should be trustee for the p...
