Woodrow Wilson: “The great nations of the world have been asleep, but God knows the other nations have not been asleep.”

No provision is made in the resolution for the preservation of any proportionate strength in the combatant corps of the Army.

If there ever was a time when America had anything to fear from foreign competition, that time has passed.

I suggest to my fellow-countrymen that the circles around their Christmas trees will be incomplete unless, mingled with their own expectant children, they shall visualize some of the waifs of Central Europe.

I am not convinced that the method proposed is wise, that the benefits, if any, would offset the evils which would result, or that the same or larger advantages cannot be secured without resort to Government intervention.