Investments would be safer, governments more careful and orderly.

And--we would not have made any entangling alliance with anybody.

All this would prevent perhaps dozens of little wars.

It's merely using the English fleet and ours to make the world understand that the time has come for orderliness and peace and for the honest development of backward, turbulent lands and peoples.
If you don't put this through, tell me what's the matter with it.
I've sent it to Washington after talking and being talked to for a month and after the hardest kind of thinking.

Isn't this constructive?
Isn't it using the great power lying idle about the world, to do the thing that most needs to be done?
Colonel House presented this memorandum to the President, but events sufficiently disclosed that it had no influence upon his Mexican policy.
Two days after it was written Mr.Wilson went before Congress, announced that the Lind Mission had failed, and that conditions in Mexico had grown worse.