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Woodrow Wilson: But just because we demand unmolested development and the undisturbed government of our own lives upon our own…

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But just because we demand unmolested development and the undisturbed government of our own lives upon our own principles of right and liberty, we resent, from whatever quarter it may come, the aggression we ourselves will not practice.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Wilson expresses the need for self-determination and the rejection of external aggression.

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