06/13/1917
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"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."
"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."
"If Germany had waited a single generation, she would have had a commercial empire of the world."