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Woodrow Wilson: We seek to maintain the dignity and authority of the United States only because we wish always to keep our great…

On the recordApril 19, 1914
We seek to maintain the dignity and authority of the United States only because we wish always to keep our great influence unimpaired for the uses of liberty, both in the United States and wherever else it may be employed for the benefit of mankind.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address to a Joint Session of Congress on the Tampico Incident

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