We have used great words, all of us, we have used the great words 'right' and 'justice', and now we are to prove whether or not we understand those words and how they are to be applied to the particular settlements which must conclude this war.
Woodrow Wilson: “We have used great words, all of us, we have used the great words 'right' and 'justice', and now we are to prove whether…”
On the recordDecember 26, 1918
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Remarks at Buckingham Palace in London, England
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