If asked, Are you ready to defend yourselves? we reply, Most assuredly, to the utmost; and yet we shall not turn America into a military camp.
Woodrow Wilson: “If asked, Are you ready to defend yourselves? we reply, Most assuredly, to the utmost; and yet we shall not turn America…”
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Wilson affirms America's readiness to defend itself without transforming into a militarized society.
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