Q. Should the U.S. try to democratize the Germans or accept the view that the Germans are a race incapable of self-government?
A. The history of immigration, based on the Declaration, proves that Germans are capable of being good and great democratic citizens.
Q. Can the U.S. unite permanently with any single nation or any exclusive group of nations?
A. Our history, under the Declaration, makes it impossible.
Q. Can the U.S. join a world federation regulating specific economic problems, such as access to raw materials, tariffs, etc.?
A. Nothing in the Declaration is against, everything in our history is for, such a move.
Q. Can the U.S. fight the war successfully without accepting the active principles of the Totalitarian States?
A. If our history is any guide, the only way we can lose the war is by failing to fight it in our own way.
I have already indicated the possibility that our whole military grand plan must be based on variety, which is the characteristic of America created by specific passages in the Declaration; I am sure that the whole grand plan of civilian unity (the plan of morale and propaganda) has to return to the leading lines of our history, if we want to act quickly, harmoniously and effectively; and the peace we make will be another Versailles, with another Article X in the Covenant, if we make it without returning to the sources of our strength.
So, if we want to win in the field and at home, win the war and the peace, we must be aware of our history and of the principles laid down in 1776 and never, in the long run, betrayed.