Political Quotes

On the recordSeptember 17, 1919
We can not release the great industrial and economic power of America and let it run free until there are channels that are free in which it can run.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address at a Luncheon at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California

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