10/11/1917
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"The present German submarine warfare against commerce is a warfare against mankind."
"It is a distressing and oppressive duty, Gentlemen of the Congress, which I have performed in thus addressing you."
"We shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts."
"Our motive will not be revenge or the victorious assertion of the physical might of the nation, but only the vindication of right, of human right, of which we are only a single champion."