Woodrow Wilson: “Nobody can guarantee the world against the ugly passions that sometimes get abroad.”

We have been vigorously building up a great merchant marine and providing for improvement of marketing in foreign countries by the passage of an export trade law.

I regret that I am not able to see in the condition of the world at large or in the needs of the United States any such change as would justify the restriction upon that minimum which is proposed by the House Joint Resolution.

The reviewing authority should suspend the whole of a sentence when it appears to him that such action will promote the discipline of his command.

Very little reflection would lead any one to conclude that the measure would not furnish in any substantial degree the relief sought by the producers of most of the staple commodities which it covers.