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The people of the United States are drawn from many nations and chiefly from the nations now alwa. 15
natural and inevitable that there should be the utmost variety of sympathy and desire among them with reward
to the issues and circumstances of the conflict. Some will wish one nation, others another, to succeed in the
momentous struggle. It will be easy to excite passion and difficult to allay it. Those responsible for exciting it
will assume a heavy responsibility, responsibility for no less a thing than that the people of the United States.
whose love of their country and whose loyalty to its government should unite them as Americans all. bound
in honor and affection to think first of her and her interests, may be divided in camps of hostile opinion, hot
against each other, involved in the war itself in impulse and opinion if not in action.
Source: Wilson's Message to Congress, 1914
Question #1
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