Warren Harding: “Productive labor is staggering under an economic burden too heavy to be borne unless the present vast public…”

I can see Russia only as the supreme tragedy and a world warning, the dangers of which we must avoid if our heritage is to be preserved.

I believe our policy, and its results, have reflected the sound judgment of the overwhelming majority of the American people.

How else may controversies between nations be determined? Is a controversy to be left a festering sore? If it is, then there is ever increasing danger that the ultimate alternative to peaceful settlement would be arbitrament of arms.

Something in your golden gateway has impelled me to speak to you of the foreign relations of our republic. Happily it is not a message of anxiety, but one of satisfaction and rejoicing.