Reject this treaty, impair it, and this is the consequence to the laboring men of the world.

The council advises, and it cannot advise without the vote of the United States.

We are not dealing with the kind of document which this is represented by some gentlemen to be.

Every man regards his own advice as best, and I dare say every man mixes his own advice with some thought of his own interest.

The covenant in another portion guarantees to the members the independent control of their domestic questions.

I ordered their sons being put in the most difficult parts of the battle line, where death was certain, as in the impenetrable difficulties of the forest of Argonne.

No nation that could be reached by the conclusions of this conference was obliged to accept the authority of a government by which it did not wish to be controlled.

The world did not realize in 1914 that it had come to the final grapple of principle.

Gov. Carey is quite right in saying that no document ever drew upon it more widespread discussion than the great treaty of peace with which your representatives returned from Paris.

We either go in with the other free peoples of the world to guarantee the peace of the world now, or we stay out.

The overwhelming majority of them demand the ratification of this treaty.

It is a peace of liberation.