Quote#Remembrance
There is a very great thrill to be had from the memories of the…
Quote byWoodrow Wilson · 1856–1924
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: “On the Spirit of America”, Address to Daughters of the American Revoltion (11 October 1915).
English (original)
There is a very great thrill to be had from the memories of the American Revolution, but the American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation, and the duty laid upon us by that beginning is the duty of bringing the things then begun to a noble triumph of completion.
— Woodrow Wilson
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