01/04/1919
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"That service is nothing less than this, to add their authority and their power to the authority and force of other nations to guarantee peace and justice throughout the world."
"It is inconceivable that the people of the United States should play no part in that great enterprise."
"No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed."
"We are that much nearer a definite discussion of the peace which shall end the present war."