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It may be easy to reawaken old enthusiasms, but it must be infinitely hard to create new ones, and impossible to surprise a whole people into unpremeditated action.
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gutenberg.orgWoodrow Wilson: “It may be easy to reawaken old enthusiasms, but it must be infinitely hard to create new ones, and impossible to…”
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Wilson points out the difficulty of generating new political enthusiasm compared to rekindling old ones, stressing the need for deliberate action.
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