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On the recordJuly 12, 1916
No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Address to the Citizenship Convention at Wilson Normal School

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