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By Woodrow Wilson
The firm basis of government is justice, not pity.
- Source
- Inaugural Address, March 4, 1913
- Read at
- The American Presidency Project (text follows the Public Papers of the Presidents)
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From Woodrow Wilson's First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1913. It comes right after he says the nation has not yet used government to safeguard the health of its men, women and children, and he adds "This is no sentimental duty." The next sentence is: "These are matters of justice."