"I think they are making very good progress."
"It is rather ineffectual to start on a trip and have to cancel it."
"I should try to deal justly with it, as I should with any other request for a pardon."
"I should doubt very much the suggestion here, that the War Department has made a recommendation."
"I notice some of the representatives of the press take advantage of the opportunity to sit down."
"That has never come to my attention."
"I haven't any present intention of leaving Washington."
"Any of you that wants can have my chair."
"Our own concern is not with the beginning. Our interest is in the end to be attained."
"The surpassing accomplishments are progressively made, and I know that the soul of America will light the way to a gratifying victory."
"When that glad day comes—I hope it will be soon—when the sincerity of our own aspirations and the sincerity of the world's convictions bring us to a united endeavor, we shall forget that there were ne..."
"The big thing is the firm establishment of the Court and our cordial adherence thereto. All else is mere detail."
"I do not know that such a court will be unfailing in the avoidance of war, but I know it is a step in the right direction and will prove an advance toward international peace for which the reflective ..."
"I have thus far made no allusion to the hungering of humanity for new assurances that the world may be equally blessed. Peace ought to be the supreme blessing to all mankind."
"I can see Russia only as the supreme tragedy and a world warning, the dangers of which we must avoid if our heritage is to be preserved."
"The friendly relationship and the soul of national honor are infinitely more important to peace than a written form of their expression."
"As President, speaking for the United States, I am more interested in adherence to such a tribunal in the best form attainable than I am concerned about the triumph of Presidential insistence."
"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..."
