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“ We are fighting Germany because while we were yet her friends, the only great power that still held hands off, she sent the Zimmermann note, calling to her aid Mexico, our southern neighbor, and hoping to lure Japan, our western neighbor, into war against this nation of peace.
The nation that would do these things proclaims the gospel that government has no conscience. And this doctrine cannot live or else democracy must die. For the nations of the world must keep faith. ”