This is the field of the single unconquerable force that there is in the world, and when the world learns, as it will learn, that America has put her whole force into the common harness of civilization, then it will know that the wheels are going to turn.
Woodrow Wilson: “This is the field of the single unconquerable force that there is in the world, and when the world learns, as it will…”
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Address at a Luncheon at the Hotel Portland in Portland, Oregon
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