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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

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

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