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Woodrow Wilson: So, gentlemen, I have not come here to-night to do anything but to remind you that you do not constitute the United…

On the recordJune 29, 1916
So, gentlemen, I have not come here to-night to do anything but to remind you that you do not constitute the United States; that I do not constitute the United States; that it is something bigger and greater and finer than any of us.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address Before the Press Club in New York City

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