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On the recordSeptember 8, 1919
The United States has accumulated a great debt, but not in proportion to those that other countries have accumulated when you reckon our wealth as compared with theirs.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address to the Minnesota State Legislature in St. Paul

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