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Woodrow Wilson: It would tear the heartstrings of America to be at war with any of the great nations of the world.

On the recordFebruary 2, 1916
It would tear the heartstrings of America to be at war with any of the great nations of the world.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address at the St. Louis Coliseum in St. Louis, Missouri

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