Political liberty can exist only when there is peace.

The isolation of the United States is at an end.

It is the first great international agreement in the history of mankind where the principle adopted has been, not the power of the strong but the right of the weak.

I am very grateful; I may say in parentheses, that I did not have to make that choice.

I have come away from Washington to discuss them because apparently it is difficult to discuss them in Washington.

Shall America redeem her pledges to the world?

Politics in the wider sense has a great deal to do with it.

The greatest nationalist is the man who wants his nation to be the greatest nation.

The heart of the covenant of the league is that the nations solemnly covenant not to go to war for nine months after a controversy becomes acute.

I am making this journey as an American and as a champion of rights which America believes in;

I have come to report to you upon the work which the representatives of the United States attempted to do at the conference of peace on the other side of the sea.

It is a case of 'put up or shut up.'

My fellow citizens, I do not think there is any man alive who has a more tender sympathy for the great people of Italy than I have.

We were giving people what belonged to them.

There is a method of adjustment in that treaty by which the reparation shall not be pressed beyond the point which Germany can pay.

I would be ashamed of myself if I discussed this great matter as a Democrat and not as an American.

It is for the first time in the history of international transactions an act of systematic justice and not an act of grabbing and seizing.

It is made for the protection of the weak peoples of the world and not for the aggrandizement of the strong.