"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."
"The ways of peace are in kept agreements."
"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 settlem..."
"History has yet to record another like expression of trust by one nation in the fairness of another."
"Our feeling toward the Mexican people is one of entire and very cordial friendliness, and we have deeply regretted the necessity for the continued suspension of diplomatic relations."
"We avoided controversy and recorded accomplishment."
"Settlement may enforce hardships and denials and economies which hinder the easy way to restoration, but it maintains the foundations of financial honor which must be everlasting."
"It is a pity we have the mischief makers who are ever adding to the burdens of distrust, but we do have them and in 1921 they were busy in our land and in the East, exciting suspicion and ill feeling."
"If there are no property rights, there is little, if any, foundation for national rights, which we are ever being called upon to safeguard."
"If our people are ever to decide upon war, they will choose to decide according to our own national conscience at the time and in the constitutional manner without advance commitment, or the advice or..."
"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."