“America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us”

— Woodrow Wilson

Speech on Military Preparedness, Pittsburgh (29 January 1916)
1910s
Context: We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency—clear, disinterested thinking and fearless action along the right lines of thought. America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us; and it can consist of all of us only as our spirits are banded together in a common enterprise.

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