We are not going to be stalked and daunted by ghosts and fancies.

The facts of the world are such that it is my duty to counsel my fellow citizens that preparation for national defense can not any longer be postponed.

I am sure we have never encouraged in America the spirit of militarism, and we shall never have militarism in the United States.

The American plan is a great body of citizens who are ready to rally to the national defense and adequately serve the national defense when it is necessary to do so.

If these gentlemen could have sat with me reading the dispatches and handling the questions which arise every hour of the twenty-four, they would have known how infinitely difficult it had been to maintain the peace and they would have…

I get a great deal more inspiration outside of Washington than inside of it.

America does not desire anything that any other nation can give it except friendship and justice and right conduct.

We call every sort of man who has displayed unusual powers 'great'; we call some bad men 'great'; but we reserve the word 'honorable' for those who are great, but spend their greatness upon others rather than upon themselves.

You know that you have not, and the very fact that the force is not ready may make the task you have set for me all the more delicate and all the more difficult.

I say it because I am confident that the men in Congress know a national necessity when they see it.

We are under the influences of it, but we are not at the sources of it.

The world will never be the same again after this war is over.