Woodrow Wilson

I have come to report to you upon the work which the representatives of the United States attempted to do at the conference of peace on the other side of the sea.

She attempted an intolerable thing, and she must be made to pay for the attempt.

At present we have to mind our own business.

If this covenant accomplished little more than the abolition of private arrangements between great powers, it would have gone far toward stabilizing the peace of the world

We are the friends of liberty; we have joined with the rest of mankind in securing the guarantees of liberty; we stand here with you the eternal champions of what is right, and may God keep us in the covenant that we have formed.

The heart of the covenant of the league is that the nations solemnly covenant not to go to war for nine months after a controversy becomes acute.

After all the various angles at which you have heard the treaty held up, perhaps you would like to know what is in the treaty.

Every man who makes a choice to respect the rights of his neighbors deprives himself of absolute sovereignty, but he does it by promising never to do wrong.

It is none of my prerogative to allot peoples to this government or the other.

It is made for the protection of the weak peoples of the world and not for the aggrandizement of the strong.

I am trying to tell the people what is in the treaty.

Apply this economic, peaceful, silent, deadly remedy and there will be no need for force.

I am making this journey as an American and as a champion of rights which America believes in;

Every matter which is likely to affect the peace of the world is everybody's business;

We were giving people what belonged to them.

I have not come here to make a speech in the ordinary sense of that term.

This treaty contains among other things a Magna Charta of labor—a thing unheard of until this interesting year of grace.

we make everything open for discussion.

This treaty is unique in the history of mankind, because the center of it is the redemption of weak nations.

The league of nations is the only thing that can prevent the recurrence of this dreadful catastrophe and redeem our promises.

It is a case of 'put up or shut up.'

The only people I owe any report to are you and the other citizens of the United States.

My errand upon this journey is not to argue these matters, but to recall you to the real issues which are involved.

I would be ashamed of myself if I discussed this great matter as a Democrat and not as an American.

We engage in the first sentence of Article X to respect and preserve from external aggression the territorial integrity and the existing political independence not only of the other member States, but of all States.