Warren G. Harding: “It must be done if he is fittingly to exercise the duties as well as enjoy the privileges of American citizenship.”

We ask no one to assume responsibility for us; we assume no responsibility which others must bear for themselves, unless nationality is hopelessly swallowed up in internationalism.

Every obligation consonant with American ideals and sanctioned under our form of government is willingly met.

I would like the Congress and the people of the Nation to believe that in a firm and considerate way we are insistent on American rights wherever they may be questioned, and deny no rights of others in the assertion of our own.

We have had expressed the hostility of the American people to a supergovernment or to any commitment where either a council or an assembly of leagued powers may chart our course.