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Woodrow Wilson: I have a profound intellectual contempt for men who can not see the signs of the times.

On the recordMay 14, 1916
I have a profound intellectual contempt for men who can not see the signs of the times.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address at the National Press Club

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