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Woodrow Wilson: “I believe that they will feel, with me, that the stage of affairs is now set for such action as will be not only just…”

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I believe that they will feel, with me, that the stage of affairs is now set for such action as will be not only just but generous and in the spirit of the new age upon which we have so happily entered.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Wilson believes the time is right for just and generous actions.

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