Why should they bless me?
We are at liberty to act without waiting for other nations to act.
The thing that Germany attempted, if it had succeeded, would have set the civilization of the world back a hundred years.
I can not conceive a motive adequate to hold men off from this thing.
We are the trustees of humanity, and we must see that we redeem the pledges which are always implicit in so great a trusteeship.
I take leave to say, more critical than has ever been known during the history of the United States.
I have come to get a consciousness of your support and of your sentiment, at a time in the history of the world.
We are under compulsion to stay in the partnership.
The issue is nothing else.
We can not now turn back.
We can not with honor reverse it now.