If we fail them, God help the world! Then despair will ensue.
You never could divine it from the discussion of the men who are opposed to it.
I have not come to paint pictures of the fancy.
It says that nothing in the covenant shall be interpreted as impairing the validity of the Monroe doctrine.
Frightened, my fellow citizens? Why, it is the only possible or conceivable guaranty against the wars that have ravaged the world.
That really is my errand.
Let me take them one by one.
I say that we have an immense insurance against war, and that is exactly what this great covenant does.
Let men discount the proposed arrangements as much as they will; let us regard it as an insurance policy.
It will mean a great deal now, but it will mean infinitely more in the future.
America is less exhausted by the recent war than the other belligerents; she is not exhausted at all.