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Woodrow Wilson: I can not conceive a motive adequate to hold men off from this thing.

On the recordSeptember 16, 1919
I can not conceive a motive adequate to hold men off from this thing.
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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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