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On the recordJanuary 21, 1917
It will be absolutely necessary that a force be created as a guarantor of the permanency of the settlement so much greater than the force of any nation now engaged or any alliance hitherto formed or projected that no nation, no probable combination of nations could face or withstand it.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address to the Senate of the United States: A World League for Peace

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