Woodrow Wilson, "The world must be made safe for democracy", Washington DC, April 2, 1917, Twentieth-Century Speeches, 1992, 58.
It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts - for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own government, for the dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
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