Address at Coeur D'Alene, Idaho
09/11/1919
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Let men discount the proposed arrangements as much as they will; let us regard it as an insurance policy.
It will mean a great deal now, but it will mean infinitely more in the future.
America is less exhausted by the recent war than the other belligerents; she is not exhausted at all.
The next war would have to be paid for in American blood and American money.