Quotation by Will Rogers

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
Will Rogers (1879–1935), U.S. humorist. Quoted in Wit and Wisdom, p. 18, ed. Jack Lait (1936).

Remark following the Versailles Peace Conference, in which President Woodrow Wilson spurned all suggestions that the United States should take territory or payment following its participation in World War I....
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