Woodrow Wilson

If anybody in this audience allows himself when thinking of this matter to think of the elections of 1920 I want to declare that I separate myself from him.

I entirely concur in Senator Lodge's conclusion, and I hope I shall have his cooperation in bringing about the desired result.

I am glad for one to have lived to see this day.

The only thing that lifts the world is hope.

All of that is absolutely antidemocratic in its influence.

There is nothing that is so formidable as a fact.

I do not know when I have been as proud, as an American, as when I have seen our boys deploy on the other side of the sea.

There is only one means of doing that, my fellow citizens.

The only thing in the world that is unconquerable is the thought of men.

There is not a bit of credit that has not got an element of assessment of character.

We would have to concentrate authority sufficiently to be able to use the physical force of the Nation quickly upon occasion.

There is nothing I respect so much as a fact.

America is believed in throughout the world, because she has put spirit before material ambition.

If we want a league of nations, we must take this league of nations, because there is no conceivable way in which any other league of nations is obtainable.

I am not in favor of the ratification of this treaty, including the covenant of the league of nations, because I am a Democrat. I am in favor of it because I am an American and a lover of humanity.

The past is only a prediction of the future, and all this terrible thing that your brothers and husbands and sweethearts have been through may have to be gone through with again.

I deeply regret the suggestions which are made on some sides that we should take advantage of the present situation in the world but should not shoulder any of the responsibility.

I want to express my particular interest in this charming circle of school children.

We will not deny it to them.

It is that consciousness which I have so often gained in moving from one part of this beloved country to another that makes me so profoundly proud to be an American.

I wish I had. I would be a very proud man if I had; but I did not.

I want you to realize just what the covenant of the league of nations means.

I give you my most cordial greeting and my most profound thanks for this generous welcome.

I can say that I am profoundly glad to see you and profoundly touched by a welcome like this.

No amount of debate will set them off their balance in their thinking, because their thinking is based upon fundamental impulses of right.