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Woodrow Wilson: “We shall not believe that they are hostile to us unless and until we are obliged to believe it.”

On the recordFebruary 2, 1917
We shall not believe that they are hostile to us unless and until we are obliged to believe it.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address to a Joint Session of Congress on the Severance of Diplomatic Relations with Germany

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