We are the trustees of humanity, and we must see that we redeem the pledges which are always implicit in so great a trusteeship.
Woodrow Wilson: “We are the trustees of humanity, and we must see that we redeem the pledges which are always implicit in so great a…”
On the recordSeptember 16, 1919
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Address at a Luncheon at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California
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