Address at Coeur D'Alene, Idaho
09/11/1919
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Let us be perfectly frank with ourselves and admit that these questions cannot be satisfactorily answered now or at once.
Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the ugly distempers that make an ordered life impossible.
Armed imperialism such as the men conceived who were but yesterday the masters of Germany is at an end, its illicit ambitions engulfed in bl...
If they do not, we must await with patience and sympathy the awakening and recovery that will assuredly come at last.