Excerpt from The World War, Jefferson and Democracy
The mighty conflict at arms in which four nations on one side and twenty on the other now grapple for mastery, reveals the march of Jefferson's ideals. The equal rights of nations, great and small, was the appeal of the Entente powers the moment the German army crossed the Belgian border. And the idea which made the entrance of the United States into the struggle necessary and popular was, that "the world should be made safe for democracy" - the same sentiment that glowed in Jefferson's "wish to see liberty extended to all men," in his enlightened claim, that "justice is the fundamental law of society" and in his better known jewel of the Declaration, that "governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed."
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