Frank Vanderlip

“ There are not men enough to make for us our ordinary comforts and luxuries and at the same time build the ships and fighting equipment needed. If we will recognize that fact, we will then see why each one of us must give up some of our ordinary comforts and luxuries. If we do not, the army cannot be equipped in time.
So we must see to it that every one of our hundred million Americans enlist in that great army back of our soldiers. We must all serve. The responsibility is upon you to decide how you will serve. Whether in the army in khaki or in the larger army -- the hundred million army. ”

“ We cannot fight a war without money, that we all know. But after all we cannot win a war with money. You could dress a soldier in dollar bills and he would still be cold. It is the output of the workshop that we must have. We are just now seeing that money will not build a fire in a furnace. That needs coal, and money will not secure coal where the coal cannot be transported. We are learning that appropriations, and treasury credit do not equip the army, unless there are other raw materials -- the workshop, and the manpower -- which that money can command. ”

“ Our men may be as brave as any heros ever were, but they cannot successfully fight this sort of fight barehanded. They must have the equipment of guns great and small, of ammunition, of a sky full of airplanes, and of a bridge of ships across the Atlantic. ”