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Woodrow Wilson: 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…

On the recordSeptember 8, 1919
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.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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

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