"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 inly as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last."
United States President Woodrow Wilson addressing the United States Senate on January 22, 1917
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