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On the recordSeptember 17, 1919
The heart of this treaty is that it gives liberty and independence to people who never could have got it for themselves.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address at a Luncheon at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California

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