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On the recordOctober 23, 1914
I have always been very impatient of processes and institutions which said that their purpose was to put every man in the way of developing his character.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address at the Young Men's Christian Association's Celebration, Pittsburgh: 'The Power of Christian Young Men...'

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