"All the world outside of America is on fire."
"I believe in peace, I love peace."
"I say it because I am confident that the men in Congress know a national necessity when they see it."
"The only thing I am afraid of is not being ready to perform my duty."
"You know that you have not, and the very fact that the force is not ready may make the task you have set for me all the more delicate and all the more difficult."
"America stands, first of all, for the right of men to determine whom they will obey and whom they will serve; for the right of political freedom and a people's sovereignty."
"I am conscious of a sort of truancy in being absent from my duties in Washington."
"We are not going to be stalked and daunted by ghosts and fancies."
"America does not desire anything that any other nation can give it except friendship and justice and right conduct."
"The world will never be the same again after this war is over."
"We are relying upon you, Mr. President, to keep us out of this war, but we are relying upon you, Mr. President, to keep the honor of the Nation unstained."
"We are under the influences of it, but we are not at the sources of it."
"I want every man and woman of you to stand behind me in pressing a reasonable plan for national defense."
"We call every sort of man who has displayed unusual powers 'great'; we call some bad men 'great'; but we reserve the word 'honorable' for those who are great, but spend their greatness upon others rat..."
"I get a great deal more inspiration outside of Washington than inside of it."
"We want American character to display itself in what I may perhaps be allowed to call spiritual efficiency."
"I am sorry that upon the eve of a campaign we should be obliged to discuss these things, for fear they might run over into the campaign and seem to constitute a part of it."
"I want you to go home determined that within the whole circle of your influence the President, not as a partisan but as the representative of the national honour, shall be backed up by the whole force..."
