The trouble has been that when they came in the past—they came with all their bristles out; they came on the defensive; they came to see, not what they could accomplish, but what they could prevent.
Woodrow Wilson: “The trouble has been that when they came in the past—they came with all their bristles out; they came on the defensive…”
On the recordFebruary 2, 1915
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Address Before the United States Chamber of Commerce
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