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Woodrow Wilson: Other autocratic powers may spring up, but there is only one soil in which they can spring up, and that is the wrongs…

On the recordSeptember 18, 1919
Other autocratic powers may spring up, but there is only one soil in which they can spring up, and that is the wrongs done to free peoples of the world.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address at the Stadium in Balboa Park in San Diego, California

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