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Woodrow Wilson: “We are under the influences of it, but we are not at the sources of it.”

On the recordJanuary 28, 1916
We are under the influences of it, but we are not at the sources of it.
Said by
Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

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

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