"Our own concern is not with the beginning. Our interest is in the end to be attained."
"If the plain and very simple path of progress in dealing with these controversies which all countries recognize to be susceptible to settlement through judicial tribunals is not to be followed, then h..."
"Where resentment once abided because of the presence of our military forces in the Dominican Republic, there are today universal expressions of approval, and the processes of setting up a constitution..."
"Public order has been so improved in the interior that our marines have been practically withdrawn therefrom, and the day is in prospect when our complete withdrawal from the island may be contemplate..."
"We would give as freely as we ask. Such assurance is in the interest of permanent friendly relations."
"The world was weary of war burdens and armament cost, and an honest and authoritative confession would reveal that fact so that men might act in concert to relieve the situation and make for widesprea..."
"The ways of peace are in kept agreements."
"That this Administration, supported by the strength and generosity of the American people, has saved the lives of ten millions of men, women and children in Russia, at the very door of death from fami..."
"In the gloom and grief of the world, the Conference table lighted the torch of understanding and pointed the simplest way to peace."
"If our people are ever to decide upon war, they will choose to decide according to our own national conscience at the time and in the constitutional manner without advance commitment, or the advice or..."
"It is a pity we have the mischief makers who are ever adding to the burdens of distrust, but we do have them and in 1921 they were busy in our land and in the East, exciting suspicion and ill feeling."
"If there are no property rights, there is little, if any, foundation for national rights, which we are ever being called upon to safeguard."
"Our feeling toward the Mexican people is one of entire and very cordial friendliness, and we have deeply regretted the necessity for the continued suspension of diplomatic relations."
"How else may controversies between nations be determined? Is a controversy to be left a festering sore? If it is, then there is ever increasing danger that the ultimate alternative to peaceful settlem..."
"We avoided controversy and recorded accomplishment."
"We do not challenge the utility of the League of Nations to others; we wish it more power in every righteous exercise of its functions; but it is clearly not for us as presented in the Versailles cove..."
"Settlement may enforce hardships and denials and economies which hinder the easy way to restoration, but it maintains the foundations of financial honor which must be everlasting."
"The surpassing accomplishments are progressively made, and I know that the soul of America will light the way to a gratifying victory."
