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Woodrow Wilson: That sturdy, serene soldier stood and uttered, not the words of triumph, but the simple words of affection for his…

On the recordDecember 27, 1918
That sturdy, serene soldier stood and uttered, not the words of triumph, but the simple words of affection for his soldiers, and the conviction which he summed up, in a sentence which I will not try accurately to quote but reproduce in its spirit, was that France must always remember that the small and the weak could never live free in the world unless the strong and the great always put their power and strength in the service of right.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address at Guild Hall in London, England

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