It is well to give full weight to these great advantages of our big and strenuous and yet familiar way of conducting affairs; but it is imperative at the same time to make very plain the influences which are pointing toward changes in our politics--changes which threaten loss of organic wholeness and soundness.
Woodrow Wilson: “It is well to give full weight to these great advantages of our big and strenuous and yet familiar way of conducting…”
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Wilson warns about the potential dangers to the integrity of American politics due to changing influences and the need for awareness of these changes.
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