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Woodrow Wilson: America and her determinations now constitute the balance of moral force in the world, and if we do not use that moral…

On the recordSeptember 8, 1919
America and her determinations now constitute the balance of moral force in the world, and if we do not use that moral force we will be of all peoples the most derelict.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address at the University of Minnesota Armory in Minneapolis

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