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Woodrow Wilson: The most that America can hope to do is to show, it may be, the finest example, not the only example, of the things that…

On the recordJuly 12, 1916
The most that America can hope to do is to show, it may be, the finest example, not the only example, of the things that ought to benefit and promote the progress of the world.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address to the Citizenship Convention at Wilson Normal School

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