Address at the Hippodrome in Seattle, Washington
09/12/1919
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Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the ugly distempers that make an ordered life impossible.
Armed imperialism such as the men conceived who were but yesterday the masters of Germany is at an end, its illicit ambitions engulfed in bl...
If they do not, we must await with patience and sympathy the awakening and recovery that will assuredly come at last.
To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make permanent conquest.