If this covenant accomplished little more than the abolition of private arrangements between great powers, it would have gone far toward stabilizing the peace of the world

The boys will not have to do this again.

Every man who makes a choice to respect the rights of his neighbors deprives himself of absolute sovereignty, but he does it by promising never to do wrong.

It is none of my prerogative to allot peoples to this government or the other.

We engage in the first sentence of Article X to respect and preserve from external aggression the territorial integrity and the existing political independence not only of the other member States, but of all States.

After all the various angles at which you have heard the treaty held up, perhaps you would like to know what is in the treaty.

That is a noble achievement, and it is largely due to the influence of such great peoples as the people of America.

Shall we or shall we not sustain the first great act of international justice?

Our full, normal profitable production waits on peace.

Our military plans of course wait upon it.

There can be no stabilization of wages because there can be no settled conditions of employment.

I will only venture to repeat that every element of normal life amongst us depends upon and awaits the ratification of the treaty of peace.

There is hardly a single raw material, a single important foodstuff, a single class of manufactured goods which is not in the same case.

I must frankly say that I am unable to understand why such doubts should be entertained.

We cannot afford to lose a single summer's day by not doing all that we can to mitigate the winter's suffering.

I hope, too, that this conference will serve to expedite your consideration of the treaty of peace.

I welcome the opportunity for a frank and full interchange of views.

Every element of normal life amongst us depends upon and awaits the ratification of the treaty of peace.