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On the recordFebruary 2, 1917
I refuse to believe that it is the intention of the German authorities to do in fact what they have warned us they will feel at liberty to do.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address to a Joint Session of Congress on the Severance of Diplomatic Relations with Germany

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