I have come to get a consciousness of your support and of your sentiment, at a time in the history of the world.

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

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

I have always taken this attitude toward facts, that I never let them get me if I see them coming first.

There is nothing I respect so much as a fact.

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

I ask you even as a business proposition whether it is more useful to trade with a cynic or with an optimist.

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.

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

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

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.

Every drop of blood that I have in me gets up and shouts when I think of the opportunity that America has.