Woodrow Wilson actually said...

This was a war to make similar wars impossible, and merely to win this war and stop at that is to make it certain that we shall have to fight another and a final one.

Context

Address at the St. Paul Auditorium in St. Paul, Minnesota

09/08/1919

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