The United States heard the cry of the Cubans under Spanish rule, turned out the Spanish rulers, and gave Cuba over to the Cubans.

In the same spirit the United States, finding itself in possession of the Philippines, is now attempting to develop them not for the United States but for the Filipinos.
Lastly, we have the example of President Wilson, who has decreed that government by assassination in the countries to the south of us must cease, and that the United States will not recognize any government thus set up in Mexico.
It is, however, not yet incumbent upon any nation, as upon individuals, to say to its neighbor, "You shall not arm; you shall not build a war machine of aggression; your offense against one is an offense against all; your military invasion against one for purposes of expansion or self-aggrandizement will be resented by all." Until we have practical application of a world-wide police in maintenance of the peace of nations, not alone by international agreement, which can be broken, but by agreement and international police-enforcement, so that it cannot be broken, there can be no universal peace.
We are now approaching that time.
There is no more reason why aggregations of people should have the right of murder, destruction, piracy, and pillage, than that individuals should have such right.
This is just a simple, practical question in human advancement.

The world should now be big enough to grasp and effectively deal with it.
The true meaning of this war is, therefore, human progress: humanity taking on larger responsibilities--the whole world answering the question, "Am I my brother's keeper ?" with a thunderous, "Aye! we are one and all our brother's keeper, and we may well keep the peace of the world!" There is no question, national or international, no question of the individual or collection of individuals, which cannot be settled by the laws which belong in the human heart.

Such laws may be called spiritual or natural, divine or human; they are one and the same.
Moses wrote no new law on the tables of stone on Mount Sinai.

The laws were before the tables of stone, and before the creation of the mountain itself.