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On the recordSeptember 7, 1916
I have come to suggest, among other things, that when the forces of nature are steadily working and the tide is rising to meet the moon, you need not be afraid that it will not come to its flood.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Address at the Suffrage Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey

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