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On the recordSeptember 7, 1919
We have gone so far in our assertions of popular right that we not only say that the people have a right to have a government that suits them, but that they have a right to change it in any respect at any time.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address at the Omaha Auditorium in Omaha, Nebraska

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