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Woodrow Wilson: “It did not need to spread propaganda: it needed nothing but to methodize its ways of living.”

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It did not need to spread propaganda: it needed nothing but to methodize its ways of living.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Wilson argues that democracy does not require propaganda but rather a methodical approach to living.

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