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Woodrow Wilson: There can in what we do be no thought of aggression or of selfish aggrandizement.

On the recordApril 19, 1914
There can in what we do be no thought of aggression or of selfish aggrandizement.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address to a Joint Session of Congress on the Tampico Incident

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