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Woodrow Wilson: “The only force you can substitute for an armed mankind is the concerted force of the combined action of mankind through…”

On the recordSeptember 7, 1919
The only force you can substitute for an armed mankind is the concerted force of the combined action of mankind through the instrumentality of all the enlightened Governments of the world.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address at the City Coliseum in Sioux Falls, South Dakota

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