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Woodrow Wilson: The past is only a prediction of the future, and all this terrible thing that your brothers and husbands and sweethearts…

On the recordSeptember 14, 1919
The past is only a prediction of the future, and all this terrible thing that your brothers and husbands and sweethearts have been through may have to be gone through with again.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address at the Civic Auditorium in Portland, Oregon

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