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Woodrow Wilson: “The flag stands for something for which we are all trustees, the great part that America is to play in the world.”

On the recordJanuary 28, 1916
The flag stands for something for which we are all trustees, the great part that America is to play in the world.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Address to an Overflow Meeting at Soldiers' Memorial Hall in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvanis

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