On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia.

To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our Federal government. . . The individual sovereignty of our states must first be destroyed.

To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

We must be the great arsenal of Democracy.

A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.