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Woodrow Wilson: The heart of this treaty is that it gives liberty and independence to people who never could have got it for themselves.

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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