It is a strenuous thing, this of living the life of a free people; and our success in it depends upon training, not upon clever invention.
Woodrow Wilson: “It is a strenuous thing, this of living the life of a free people; and our success in it depends upon training, not upon…”
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Wilson stresses that living as a free people requires training rather than mere cleverness.
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