I am never afraid that the United States will fail to perform its international obligations.

I say that we have an immense insurance against war, and that is exactly what this great covenant does.

It will mean a great deal now, but it will mean infinitely more in the future.

We set this Nation up with the profession that we wanted to set an example of liberty not only, but to lead the world in the paths of liberty and justice and of right.

If you could get 10 per cent insurance of your fortunes in respect of peace, wouldn't you rather take it than no insurance at all?

America has to do at this moment nothing less than prove to the world whether she has meant what she said in the past.

Unless America takes part in this treaty, my fellow citizens, the world is going to lose heart.

Nobody can guarantee the world against the ugly passions that sometimes get abroad.

You never could divine it from the discussion of the men who are opposed to it.

That really is my errand.

Nothing is going to keep this world fit to live in like exposing in public debate every crooked thing that is going on.

Europe was full of people under the iron and relentless hand of military power, and that hand has been removed and crushed.