Perhaps it was providential that I was stricken down when I was. Had I kept my health I should have carried the League. Events have shown that the wo… - Woodrow Wilson

How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?

Our whole strength will be put into this war of emancipation, — emancipation from the threat and attempted mastery of selfish groups of autocratic rulers, — whatever the difficulties and present partial delays. We are indomitable in our power of independent action and can in no circumstances consent to live in a world governed by intrigue and force. We believe that our own desire for a new international order under which reason and justice and the common interests of mankind shall prevail is the desire of enlightened men everywhere. Without that new order the world will be without peace and human life will lack tolerable conditions of existence and development. Having set our hand to the task of achieving it, we shall not turn back.

You know how impossible it is, in short, to have a free nation if it is a military nation and under military orders