06/13/1917
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"That judgment I take the liberty of urging upon you with solemn earnestness for reasons which I shall state very frankly and which I shall hope will seem as conclusive to you as they seem to me."
"It is my duty to win the war and to ask you to remove every obstacle that stands in the way of winning it."
"We shall not only be distrusted but shall deserve to be distrusted if we do not enfranchise them with the fullest possible enfranchisement, as it is now certain that the other great free nations will ..."
"We cannot isolate our thought or our action in such a matter from the thought of the rest of the world."