A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

We are expected to put the utmost energy, of every power that we have, into the service of our fellow men, never sparing ourselves, not condescending to think of what is going to happen to ourselves, but ready, if need be, to go to the utter length of self-sacrifice.

The world must be made safe for democracy.

All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.

Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.

The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities.

There is one thing that the American people always rise to and extend their hand to and that is the truth of justice, and of liberty, and of peace. We have accepted that truth and we are going to led by itand through us the world, out into pastures of quietness and peace such as the world never dreamed of before.