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I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'

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Woodrow Wilson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1856
Born: December 28
Died: 1924
Died: February 23
28Th U.S. President
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