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On the recordSeptember 8, 1919
We ought to give our thought to this, gentlemen: America, though we do not like to admit it, has been very provincial in regard to the world's business.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address to the Minnesota State Legislature in St. Paul

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