10/16/1914
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"I am in favor of it because I am an American and a believer in humanity."
"The heart and center of this treaty is that it sets at liberty people all over Europe and in Asia who had hitherto been enslaved by powers which were not their rightful sovereigns and masters."
"We must go forward with this concert of nations or we must go back to the old arrangement."
"Other autocratic powers may spring up, but there is only one soil in which they can spring up, and that is the wrongs done to free peoples of the world."