We have cause for such rejoicing as revives and strengthens in us all the best traditions of our national history.

While we render thanks for these things, let us not forget to seek the Divine guidance in the performance of those duties, and divine mercy and forgiveness for all errors of act or purpose.

God has in His good pleasure given us peace.

Complete victory has brought us, not peace alone, but the confident promise of a new day as well in which justice shall replace force and jealous intrigue among the nations.

It has come as a great triumph of right.

God has indeed been gracious.

and pray that in all that we do we shall strengthen the ties of friendship and mutual respect upon which we must assist to build the new structure of peace and good will among the nations.

Our gallant armies have participated in a triumph which is not marred or stained by any purpose of selfish aggression.

A new day shines about us, in which our hearts take new courage and look forward with new hope to new and greater duties.

If they do not, we must await with patience and sympathy the awakening and recovery that will assuredly come at last.

Let us be perfectly frank with ourselves and admit that these questions cannot be satisfactorily answered now or at once.

Armed imperialism such as the men conceived who were but yesterday the masters of Germany is at an end, its illicit ambitions engulfed in black disaster.

The arbitrary power of the military caste of Germany which once could secretly and of its own single choice disturb the peace of the world is discredited and destroyed.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the ugly distempers that make an ordered life impossible.

We know only that this tragical war, whose consuming flames swept from one nation to another until all the world was on fire, is at an end and that it was the privilege of our own people to enter it at its most critical juncture in such…

We must hold the light steady until they find themselves.

They will find that every pathway that is stained with the blood of their own brothers leads to the wilderness, not to the seat of their hope.

To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make permanent conquest.