It has come as a great triumph of right.

Complete victory has brought us, not peace alone, but the confident promise of a new day as well in which justice shall replace force and jealous intrigue among the nations.

We must hold the light steady until they find themselves.

They will find that every pathway that is stained with the blood of their own brothers leads to the wilderness, not to the seat of their hope.

The war thus comes to an end; for, having accepted these terms of armistice, it will be impossible for the German command to renew it.

To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make permanent conquest.

Armed imperialism such as the men conceived who were but yesterday the masters of Germany is at an end, its illicit ambitions engulfed in black disaster.

The arbitrary power of the military caste of Germany which once could secretly and of its own single choice disturb the peace of the world is discredited and destroyed.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the ugly distempers that make an ordered life impossible.

We know only that this tragical war, whose consuming flames swept from one nation to another until all the world was on fire, is at an end and that it was the privilege of our own people to enter it at its most critical juncture in such…

Let us be perfectly frank with ourselves and admit that these questions cannot be satisfactorily answered now or at once.