We are obeying the mandates of humanity.

The whisper of grief that has blown all through the world is now silent, and the sun of hope seems to spread its rays and to change the earth with a new prospect of happiness.

The stern covenanter tradition that is behind me sends many an echo down the years.

The harness of precedent is sometimes a very sad and harassing trammel.

I do not believe that it was fancy on my part that I heard in the voice of welcome uttered in the streets of this great city and in the streets of Paris something more than a personal welcome.

The men who have fought in this war have been the men from free nations who were determined that that sort of thing should end now and forever.

It wars perfectly natural to break this precedent, natural because the demand for intimate conference took precedence over every other duty.

I am perfectly aware that I have in me all the insurgent elements of the human race.

When we know one another we can not hate one another.

That sturdy, serene soldier stood and uttered, not the words of triumph, but the simple words of affection for his soldiers, and the conviction which he summed up, in a sentence which I will not try accurately to quote but reproduce in its…

The peoples of the world want peace and they want it now, not merely by conquest of arms but by agreement of mind.

The welcome which you have given me and Mrs. Wilson has been so warm, so natural, so evidently from the heart that we have been more than pleased; we have been touched by it.

America does love freedom, and I believe that she loves freedom unselfishly.

May I not, sir, with a feeling of profound sincerity and friendship and sympathy propose your own health and the health of the Queen, and the prosperity of Great Britain?

Yet, after I have uttered the word 'courage,' it comes into my mind that it would take more courage to resist the great moral tide now running in the world than to yield to it, than to obey it.

Nothing less than this would have justified me in leaving the important tasks which fall upon me upon the other side of the sea.

We have used great words, all of us, we have used the great words 'right' and 'justice', and now we are to prove whether or not we understand those words and how they are to be applied to the particular settlements which must conclude this…

There is something inspiriting in knowing that this is the errand that we have come on.