Theodore Roosevelt

“ Every consideration of abstract justice and right, every consideration which caused us to enter into the war for the sake of humanity, and liberty, and world justice, and democracy, applied with exactly as much force in the fall of 1914 when we announced ourselves neutral, as in the spring of 1917 when we declared our belated conversion to the belief that it was our duty to take sides. ”

“ As for Richard Harding Davis, although in his life he did much good work, he never did better work than in his last two years, when he served France and thereby served America with all the intensity of his virile Americanism. During the past three years, every man who has been a pacifist, or pro-German, and every man who has failed from the outset to strive with all his strength for preparedness, has been false to America, and false to humanity, and has deserved ill of this country, and ill of mankind. ”

“ Every consideration of our own national interest and honour, that got us into the war, applied even more strongly after the sinking of the Lusitania, than they applied two years later when we actually went to war. ”