It is an ancient friendship, but it has been renewed and has taken on a new youth.

It has been a hard thing to perform civil tasks in the United States.

Vive la France.

I feel that I have been peculiarly honored in the generous reception you have given me.

I feel a comradeship with you to-day which is delightful as I look about upon these undisturbed fields and think of the terrible scenes through which you have gone and realize now that the quiet peace, the tranquillity of settled hope, has…

A thrill has gone through my heart, as it has gone through the heart of every American, with almost every gun that was fired and every stroke that was struck in the gallant fighting that you have done; and there has been only one regret in…

They did not come as strangers in their thoughts.

If we do not heed the mandates of mankind we shall make ourselves the most conspicuous and deserved failures in the history of the world.

Now at last the spirit of truth, the spirit to which universities have devoted themselves, has prevailed and is triumphant.

If the central powers had dared to discuss the purposes of this war for a single fortnight, it never would have happened.

The triumph of freedom in this war means that spirits of that sort now dominate the world.

The university spirit is intolerant of all the things that put the human mind under restraint.

Just a little exposure will settle most questions.

The task of those who are gathered here, or will presently be gathered here, to make the settlements of this peace is greatly simplified by the fact that they are masters of no one; they are the servants of mankind.

My conception of the league of nations is just this, that it shall operate as the organized moral force of men throughout the world.

The old policy may be changed much or little, but surely it cannot wisely be left as it was.

No such movement of troops ever took place before.

I shall count upon your friendly countenance and encouragement.