Carolina QuotesWhat is at at stake now is the peace of the world. What we are striving for is a new international order based upon broad and universal principles of right and justice, — no mere peace of shreds and patches.
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- Address to Congress: Analyzing German and Austrian Peace Utterances (1918)
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- 1918
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