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Woodrow Wilson: We have promised the people of the Philippine Islands that we will set them free.

On the recordSeptember 5, 1919
We have promised the people of the Philippine Islands that we will set them free.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address at Convention Hall in Kansas City, Missouri

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