"Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America, my fellow citizens — I do not say it in disparagement of any other great people — America is the only idealistic nation in the world."
— Idealism

January 1, 1970

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Woodrow Wilson, address supporting the League of Nations, Sioux Falls, South Dakota (September 8, 1919); reported in Albert Shaw, ed., The Messages and Papers of Woodrow Wilson (1924), vol. 2, p. 822.