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Woodrow Wilson: We fought Germany in order that there should be a world fit to live in.

On the recordSeptember 10, 1919
We fought Germany in order that there should be a world fit to live in.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address at the Opera House (Marlow Theater) in Helena, Montana

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