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Woodrow Wilson: It is our duty and our privilege to be like the country we represent and, speaking no word of malice, no word of…

On the recordJune 3, 1914
It is our duty and our privilege to be like the country we represent and, speaking no word of malice, no word of criticism even, stand shoulder to shoulder to lift the burdens of mankind in the future and show the paths of freedom to all the world.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address at Arlington National Cemetary: "Closing a Chapter

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