Woodrow Wilson actually said...

The harness of precedent is sometimes a very sad and harassing trammel.

Remarks at Mansion House in London, England

12/27/1918

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I can say that I am profoundly glad to see you and profoundly touched by a welcome like this.

It would indeed be ungracious if I did not say how much I have appreciated your welcome.

There is nothing so chilling as discussion to a hot temper.

It is not going to draw apart and it is not going to desert the nations of the world.