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Woodrow Wilson: Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the ugly distempers that make an ordered life impossible.

On the recordNovember 10, 1918
Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the ugly distempers that make an ordered life impossible.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address to a Joint Session of Congress Concerning the Terms of Armistice Signed by Germany

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