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Woodrow Wilson: “You are not serving a government, gentlemen; you are serving a people.”

On the recordJune 4, 1914
You are not serving a government, gentlemen; you are serving a people.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Annapolis Commencement Address

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