Down at bottom their temper is such that they will not permanently tolerate injustice done to them.

In the long run they will no more permit affronts to their National honor than injuries to their national interest.

Such being the case, they will do well to remember that the surest of all ways to invite disaster is to be opulent, aggressive and unarmed.
Throughout the seven and a half years that I was President, I pursued without faltering one consistent foreign policy, a policy of genuine international good will and of consideration for the rights of others, and at the same time of steady preparedness.

The weakest nations knew that they, no less than the strongest, were safe from insult and injury at our hands; and the strong and the weak alike also knew that we possessed both the will and the ability to guard ourselves from wrong or insult at the hands of any one.
It was under my administration that the Hague Court was saved from becoming an empty farce.

It had been established by joint international agreement, but no Power had been willing to resort to it.