On the recordMay 15, 1914
No man who thinks first of himself and afterwards of his country can call himself an American.
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presidency.ucsb.eduWoodrow Wilson: “No man who thinks first of himself and afterwards of his country can call himself an American.”
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Address at the Unveiling of the Statue to the Memory of Commodore John Barry
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