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Woodrow Wilson: “The world is not going to settle down, my fellow citizens, until it knows what part the United States is going to play…”

On the recordSeptember 8, 1919
The world is not going to settle down, my fellow citizens, until it knows what part the United States is going to play in the peace.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address to the Minnesota State Legislature in St. Paul

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