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Woodrow Wilson: We have got the men to waste, but God forbid that we should waste them.

On the recordJanuary 26, 1916
We have got the men to waste, but God forbid that we should waste them.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Address to the Seventh Annual Dinner of the Railway Business Association in New York City

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