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.

There is only one power to put behind the liberation of mankind, and that is the power of mankind.

There is no validity in a vote, either by the council or the assembly, in which we do not concur.

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

Just so certainly as they do that, my fellow citizens, war will be in the far background, war will be pushed out of that foreground of terror in which it has kept the world for generation after generation.

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

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 most dangerous thing for a bad cause is to expose it to the opinion of the world.

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

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

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