We avoided controversy and recorded accomplishment.

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 settlement would be arbitrament of arms.

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 covenant.

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.

Something in your golden gateway has impelled me to speak to you of the foreign relations of our republic. Happily it is not a message of anxiety, but one of satisfaction and rejoicing.

I thank you from my heart for permitting me to participate in-doing homage to those brave souls. I rejoice particularly in the opportunity afforded me of voicing my appreciation, both as President of the United States and as one who…

My Countrymen: As I stand here in the shadow of the great hills, my mind reverts to the placid banks of the broad Potomac.

And finally, as just a human being, I wish I could find words to tell you how glad I am to see you all, and reflecting as you do, from untroubled eyes, the happiness of spirit breathed by your own best song:

I loved the martial notes of those stirring verses as a boy. I love them still.

Mr. Secretary, you would better give all New England for the cod and mackerel fisheries of Newfoundland than to barter away Oregon,

All I ask is that you will not barter away Oregon or allow English interference until I can lead a band of stalwart American settlers across the plains. For this I shall try to do.

Doctor Whitman, your long ride and frozen limbs testify to your courage and your patriotism. Your credentials establish your character. Your request is granted.

The best test of policy is by results.

Those who were sure that our salvation lay in the destruction of organized labor and the precipitated reduction of wages have found that the national administration was not disposed to Acquiesce in their program.

Through such effort as this there will be opportunity for a great service.

One of the greatest lessons which the World War taught to society was a realization of its stupendous producing capacity under modern organization.

If war must come again—God grant that it shall not!—then we must draft all of the nation in carrying on.

I am quite aware that there were some who imagined, before the present administration was voted into responsibility, that it was going at least to acquiesce if not definitely sympathize with projects for the deflation of labor and the…