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Often appears with: treaties, truces, and peacemaking · the nature and attributes of God · justice as a virtue · divine justice · democracy and liberty · central powers
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“For this cause we entered the war and for this cause will we battle until the last gun is fired.” Woodrow Wilson, State of the Union Addresses · precept
Wilson urges Congress to focus on winning the war, frames it as a high-principle defense of democracy and liberty against Central Powers’ methods, and ends with a moral vision of history guided by divine justice and mercy.
in the present session of the Congress our whole attention and energy should be concentrated on the vigorous, rapid and successful prosecution of the great task of winning the war. We can do this with all the greater zeal and enthusiasm because we know that for us this is a war of high principle, debased by no selfish ambition of conquest or spoliation; because we know, and all the world knows, that we have been for…