The world is not going to settle down, my fellow citizens, until it knows what part the United States is going to play in the peace.

We ought to give our thought to this, gentlemen: America, though we do not like to admit it, has been very provincial in regard to the world's business.

I do not feel that I am on a political errand, even in the broad sense of that term.

Every member of the league promises to respect and preserve as against external aggression—not as against internal revolution—the territorial integrity and existing political independence of every other member of the league, and if it is…

Very well, that principle lies at the heart of this treaty.

The peace and good will of the world are necessary to America.

The fundamental American principle is the right of the people that live in the country to say what shall be done with that country.

The only force you can substitute for an armed mankind is the concerted force of the combined action of mankind through the instrumentality of all the enlightened Governments of the world.

America is the only idealistic Nation in the world.

We have gone so far in our assertions of popular right that we not only say that the people have a right to have a government that suits them, but that they have a right to change it in any respect at any time.

The bulk of it is concerned with arrangements under which all the members of the league—that means everybody but Germany and dismembered Turkey—agree that they never will go to war without first having done one or other of two…

They have looked to us for leadership.

The whole world needs that steadiness, and the American people are the makeweight in the fortunes of mankind.

You know what the necessity of peace is.

The world is desperately in need of the settled conditions of peace, and it can not wait much longer.

I am a Covenanter!

We have promised the people of the Philippine Islands that we will set them free.

What happened in Russia was not a sudden and accidental thing.