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Woodrow Wilson: “We are about to set them free; we must not leave them without the tools of action when they are free.”

On the recordJune 27, 1918
We are about to set them free; we must not leave them without the tools of action when they are free.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address to Joint Session of Congress on Currency Legislation

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