Woodrow Wilson

It is for the first time in the history of international transactions an act of systematic justice and not an act of grabbing and seizing.

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

Our full, normal profitable production waits on peace.

The Monroe doctrine is expressly mentioned as an understanding which is in no way to be impaired or interfered with by anything contained in the covenant.

May I mention a few of the matters which cannot be handled with intelligence until the country knows the character of the peace it is to have?

Nothing, I am led to believe, stands in the way of the ratification of the treaty except certain doubts with regard to the meaning and implication of certain articles of the covenant of the league of nations.

I will only venture to repeat that every element of normal life amongst us depends upon and awaits the ratification of the treaty of peace.

We cannot afford to lose a single summer's day by not doing all that we can to mitigate the winter's suffering.

Pardon me, Mr. Chairman, if I have been entirely unreserved and plain-spoken in speaking of the great matters we all have so much at heart.

There can be no easy or normal industrial credits because there can be no confident or permanent revival of business.

I am absolutely glad that the committee should have responded in this way to my intimation that I would like to be of service to it.

Every element of normal life amongst us depends upon and awaits the ratification of the treaty of peace.

I must frankly say that I am unable to understand why such doubts should be entertained.

The right to withdraw from the league was not expressly recognized.

There is hardly a single raw material, a single important foodstuff, a single class of manufactured goods which is not in the same case.

There can be no stabilization of wages because there can be no settled conditions of employment.

I hope, too, that this conference will serve to expedite your consideration of the treaty of peace.

Our military plans of course wait upon it.

I welcome the opportunity for a frank and full interchange of views.

I return this bill, H. R. 3854, 'An Act for the repeal of the daylight-saving law,' without my signature, but do so with the utmost reluctance.

I have been obliged to balance one set of disadvantages against another and to venture a judgment as to which were the more serious for the country.

These are the considerations which have led me to withhold my signature from this repeal.

The immediate and pressing need of the country is production, increased and increasing production, in all lines of industry.

He is profited by the prosperity which their success brings about.

It is to these that the daylight-saving law is of most service.