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Woodrow Wilson: “We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and the freedom of nations can make them.”

On the recordApril 1, 1917
We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and the freedom of nations can make them.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address to a Joint Session of Congress Requesting a Declaration of War Against Germany

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