Now, I am not going to pay any tribute to their business
organization or their efficiency, as wonderful as these things
have been. The mere fact that for twenty-eight months
they have kept alive ten million people without a single
serious hitch in the machinery of purchase, transport, and
distribution shows what their organization has been. But
this any observer can judge as well as I.

I do not emphasize the slaughter of Americans in
the Lusitania crime.

Let us read what Jefferson said: "In a government
bottomed on the will of all, the life and liberty of every
individual citizen become interesting to all." And we
can imagine what Jefferson would have done.

How far off seem Washington's words when he said:

The laws of nations make part of the laws of this and of
every other civilized nation. They consist of those rules for
regulating the conduct of nations toward each other, which,
resulting from right reason, receive their obligations from
that principle and from general assent and practice.

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