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Woodrow Wilson: You need alliances when you are not strong, and you are weak only when you are not true to yourself.

On the recordMay 15, 1914
You need alliances when you are not strong, and you are weak only when you are not true to yourself.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address at the Unveiling of the Statue to the Memory of Commodore John Barry

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