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Woodrow Wilson: Yet, after I have uttered the word 'courage,' it comes into my mind that it would take more courage to resist the great…

On the recordDecember 26, 1918
Yet, after I have uttered the word 'courage,' it comes into my mind that it would take more courage to resist the great moral tide now running in the world than to yield to it, than to obey it.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at Buckingham Palace in London, England

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