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Any leading strings we might seek to put them in would speedily become hopelessly tangled because they would pay no attention to them and go their own way.
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gutenberg.orgWoodrow Wilson: “Any leading strings we might seek to put them in would speedily become hopelessly tangled because they would pay no…”
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Wilson warns against trying to control the independent nature of the American people.
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