Address at Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England
12/29/1918
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Let me take them one by one.
I say that we have an immense insurance against war, and that is exactly what this great covenant does.
Let men discount the proposed arrangements as much as they will; let us regard it as an insurance policy.
It will mean a great deal now, but it will mean infinitely more in the future.