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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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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Address at the Unveiling of the Statue to the Memory of Commodore John Barry

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