Whitelaw Reid: “If we did not want those responsibilities we ought not to have gone to…”

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If we did not want those responsibilities we ought not to have gone to war, and I, for one, would have been content.

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Whitelaw Reid

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Reid states that if the U.S. did not want the responsibilities of war, it should not have engaged in it.

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Whitelaw Reid: “If we did not want those responsibilities we ought not to have gone to war, and I, for one, would have been content.”