"We want to defend the life of this Nation against any sort of interference."
"I should feel that I was guilty of an unpardonable omission if I did not go out and tell my fellow countrymen that new circumstances have arisen which make it absolutely necessary that this country sh..."
"My own feeling, ladies and gentlemen, is that it is a pity that this is a campaign year."
"No nation should waste its youth like that."
"The flag stands for something for which we are all trustees, the great part that America is to play in the world."
"The American plan is a great body of citizens who are ready to rally to the national defense and adequately serve the national defense when it is necessary to do so."
"I would be ashamed of the passion of fear."
"We must see to it that a sufficient body of citizens is given the kind of training which will make them efficient now if called into the field in case of necessity."
"Peace does not mean inaction."
"Peace is inconsistent with the loss of self-respect."
"America has been reluctant to match her wits with the rest of the world."
"I myself share to the bottom of my heart that profound love for peace."
"This is a year of political accounting, and the Americans in politics are rather expert accountants."
"We have got the men to waste, but God forbid that we should waste them."
"Let no man dare to say, if he would speak the truth, that the question of preparation for national defense is a question of war or of peace."
"America will always seek to the last point at which her honor is involved to avoid the things which disturb the peace of the world."
"I can find no other foundation for peace than is laid in justice without aggression."
"We live in a world which we did not make, which we can not alter, which we can not think into a different condition from that which actually exists."
