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Woodrow Wilson: “Every drop of blood that I have in me gets up and shouts when I think of the opportunity that America has.”

On the recordSeptember 14, 1919
Every drop of blood that I have in me gets up and shouts when I think of the opportunity that America has.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Address at a Luncheon at the Hotel Portland in Portland, Oregon

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