Address at a Luncheon at the Detroit Athletic Club
07/09/1916
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We have been bound by a new tie of profound admiration.
we are friends of these people and it is our duty as their friends to see to it that some kind of protection is thrown around them.
Many political changes have centered about Rome, from the time when from a little city she grew to be the mistress of an empire.
You have done me a very great honor.