There is not much danger of the smaller nations if the big nations will behave.

I am bitterly opposed to my country entering the war, but if, notwithstanding my opposition, we do enter it, all of my energy and all of my power will be behind our flag in carrying it on to victory.

Great wealth took possession of the government. It was reflected in Mr. Harding’s selection of a cabinet.

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.

Fourth, we might have declared an embargo against the shipping from American ports of any merchandise to either one of these governments that persisted in maintaining its military zone.

To my mind, what we ought to have maintained from the beginning was the strictest neutrality. If we had done this, I do not believe we would have been on the verge of war at the present time.

We ought to disarm Germany completely.