Shall we or shall we not sustain the first great act of international justice?
Parties, my fellow citizens, are intended to embody in action different policies of government.
There is a method of adjustment in that treaty by which the reparation shall not be pressed beyond the point which Germa...
This treaty is unique in the history of mankind, because the center of it is the redemption of weak nations.
We were giving people what belonged to them.
The league of nations is the only thing that can prevent the recurrence of this dreadful catastrophe and redeem our prom...
It is for the first time in the history of international transactions an act of systematic justice and not an act of gra...
What difference does party make when mankind is involved?
I have come to report to you upon the work which the representatives of the United States attempted to do at the confere...
I have not come here to make a speech in the ordinary sense of that term.
My errand upon this journey is not to argue these matters, but to recall you to the real issues which are involved.
This treaty contains among other things a Magna Charta of labor—a thing unheard of until this interesting year of grace.
The only people I owe any report to are you and the other citizens of the United States.
I am trying to tell the people what is in the treaty.
Every matter which is likely to affect the peace of the world is everybody's business;
Apply this economic, peaceful, silent, deadly remedy and there will be no need for force.
It is none of my prerogative to allot peoples to this government or the other.
Every man who makes a choice to respect the rights of his neighbors deprives himself of absolute sovereignty, but he doe...
