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Woodrow Wilson: “The whole world needs that steadiness, and the American people are the makeweight in the fortunes of mankind.”

On the recordSeptember 5, 1919
The whole world needs that steadiness, and the American people are the makeweight in the fortunes of mankind.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Address at the Coliseum in Des Moines, Iowa

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