Woodrow Wilson actually said...

You know that you have not, and the very fact that the force is not ready may make the task you have set for me all the more delicate and all the more difficult.

Context

Address to an Overflow Meeting at Soldiers' Memorial Hall in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvanis

01/28/1916

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