“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”

—  Woodrow Wilson

Red Cross Speech http://books.google.com/books?id=f6l-dsvnjhEC&pg=PA406&dq=%22Friendship+is+the+only+cement%22, New York (18 May 1918)
1910s

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