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Woodrow Wilson: There is not a single selfish element, so far as I can see, in the cause we are fighting for.

On the recordApril 15, 1917
There is not a single selfish element, so far as I can see, in the cause we are fighting for.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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