Warren G. Harding

“ We are resolved to liberate the soul of American life and prove ourselves an American people in fact, spirit, and purpose, and consecrate ourselves anew and everlastingly to human freedom and humanity's justice. Realizing our new relationship with the world, we want to make it fit to live in, and with might and fright and wrathfulness and barbarity crushed by the conscience of a real civilization. ”

“ A republic worth living in is worth fighting for, and sacrificing for, and dying for. In the fires of this conflict we shall wipe out the disloyalty of those who wear American garb without the faith, and establish a new concord of citizenship and a new devotion, so that we should have made a safe America the home and hope of a people who are truly American in heart and soul. ”

“ If the Russian failure should become the tragic impotency of nations -- if Italy should yield to the pressure of military might -- if heroic France should be martyred on her flaming altars of liberty and justice and only the soul of heroism remain -- if England should starve and her sacrifices and resolute warfare should prove in vain -- if all these improbable disasters should attend, even then we should fight on and on, making the world's cause our cause. ”