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Woodrow Wilson: “I am not foolish enough to suppose that our decisions will be easy to arrive at, but the principles upon which they are…”

On the recordJanuary 3, 1919
I am not foolish enough to suppose that our decisions will be easy to arrive at, but the principles upon which they are to be arrived at ought to be indisputable.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Remarks to the Press Representatives in Rome, Italy

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