We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back.

More from Woodrow Wilson

• Golf is an ineffectual attempt to put an elusive ball into an obscure hole with implements ill-adapted to the purpose.
• I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.