Newton D. Baker

“ I want to appeal to you and to all Americans: never during the progress of this war let us for one instant forget the high and holy mission with which we entered it, no matter what the cost, no matter what the temptation. Let us bring out of this war the flag of our country as untarnished as it goes in—sanctified and consecrated to the establishment of liberty, for all men who dwell on the face of the earth. ”

“ And it will date, I think, from this great war, when men realize, perhaps for the first time in a fundamental way, that the waste in conflict is an unrecoverable waste—that the upkeep of enormous armies is too great a burden to bear—and that the real happiness of mankind is based upon those peaceful pursuits which aim to make available the great resources of the world. ”

“ When the reconstruction of the world takes place, and a finer and better civilization has been worked out, when the human race puts its shoulders to the wheels of industry and begins to spread abroad the incalculably valuable discoveries of science, I can imagine that a new history of the world will begin to be written. ”