The world will now know that the nations that fought this war, as well as the soldiers who represented them, are ready to make good— make good not merely in the assertion of their own interests, but make good in the establishment of peace upon the permanent foundations of right and of justice.
Woodrow Wilson: “The world will now know that the nations that fought this war, as well as the soldiers who represented them, are ready…”
On the recordDecember 24, 1918
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Remarks to United States Soldiers at Humes, France
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