It must be a peace without victory... Victory would mean peace forced …

Woodrow Wilson
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It must be a peace without victory... Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last. ✨ Address to the Senate, January 22, 1917.
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