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Woodrow Wilson: You do not create the meaning of a national life by any literary exposition of it, but by the actual daily endeavors of…

On the recordJune 13, 1915
You do not create the meaning of a national life by any literary exposition of it, but by the actual daily endeavors of a great people to do the tasks of the day and live up to the ideals of honesty and righteousness and just conduct.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address at Flag Day Exercises of the Treasury Department

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