Address to the Minnesota State Legislature in St. Paul
09/08/1919
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Right must be based upon the common strength, not upon the individual strength, of the nations upon whose concert peace will depend.
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized common peace.
It will be absolutely necessary that a force be created as a guarantor of the permanency of the settlement so much greater than the force of...
It is inconceivable that the people of the United States should play no part in that great enterprise.