Chile consents to do all we can reasonably demand. My regret is that our Government blustered and bullied. President [Benjamin] Ha...rrison argued in his message like a prosecutor--made the most of the case against our weak sister. Forbearance, charity, friendship, arbitration should have been in our words and thoughts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we ...cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I realize that if it goes through it will be greatest jewel of my administration.... It is strange how one happens on this sort of... thing. When I made that speech in New York advocating the arbitration of questions, even those affecting the honor of a nation, I had no definite policy in view. I was inclined, if I remember rightly, merely to offset the antagonism to the four battleships for which I was then fighting, and I threw out that suggestion merely to draw the sting of the old [Andrew] Carnegie and other peace cranks, and now the suggestion threatens to become the main fact of my four years as president.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bryan is the least of a liar I know in public life. I have always found him direct and honest, and he never goes back on what he h...as said to me in private--a rare thing, if found, in public men. I found him purely frank.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »