We can not do any effective thinking for the world until we know that there is settled peace.
This is the first treaty ever framed by such an international convention, whose object was not to serve and defend gover...
We are at liberty to act without waiting for other nations to act.
I take leave to say, more critical than has ever been known during the history of the United States.
The thing that Germany attempted, if it had succeeded, would have set the civilization of the world back a hundred years...
I can not conceive a motive adequate to hold men off from this thing.
We can not now turn back.
We can not with honor reverse it now.
The issue is nothing else.
We are under compulsion to stay in the partnership.
We are the trustees of humanity, and we must see that we redeem the pledges which are always implicit in so great a trus...
I have come to get a consciousness of your support and of your sentiment, at a time in the history of the world.
Why should they bless me?
We made the choice in April, 1917.
Nothing has impressed me more, or impressed me more painfully, than the degree in which the rest of the world trusts us ...
Throughout America you have got a conducting medium.
Do you know of any business or undertaking in which you can get the advantage without assuming the responsibility?
The world will be turned back to cynicism if America goes back on it.
