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Woodrow Wilson: America is going to grow more and more powerful; and the more powerful she is the more inevitable it is that she should…

On the recordSeptember 10, 1919
America is going to grow more and more powerful; and the more powerful she is the more inevitable it is that she should be trustee for the peace of the world.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Address at the Opera House (Marlow Theater) in Helena, Montana

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