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 That self-governing communities are not to be treated as negligible simply because they are small, that the ruthless domination of one unscrupulous power imperils the future of civilization and the liberties of mankind, are truths of political ethics which the bitter experiences of war are burning into the soul of all freedom-loving peoples.

To those objects (to be achieved by the war), have now been added that of liberating populations oppressed by alien tyranny. To Russia, June 11, 1917