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Woodrow Wilson: Just so certainly as they do that, my fellow citizens, war will be in the far background, war will be pushed out of that…

On the recordSeptember 24, 1919
Just so certainly as they do that, my fellow citizens, war will be in the far background, war will be pushed out of that foreground of terror in which it has kept the world for generation after generation.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address at the City Hall Auditorium in Pueblo, Colorado

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