08/07/1919
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"I am very grateful; I may say in parentheses, that I did not have to make that choice."
"What happened in Russia was not a sudden and accidental thing."
"The whole world needs that steadiness, and the American people are the makeweight in the fortunes of mankind."
"It is the first great international agreement in the history of mankind where the principle adopted has been, not the power of the strong but the right of the weak."