02/02/1916
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"No nation that could be reached by the conclusions of this conference was obliged to accept the authority of a government by which it did not wish to be controlled."
"The overwhelming majority of them demand the ratification of this treaty."
"We either go in with the other free peoples of the world to guarantee the peace of the world now, or we stay out."
"The world did not realize in 1914 that it had come to the final grapple of principle."