THE NEW FREEDOM

A CALL FOR THE EMANCIPATION
OF THE GENEROUS ENERGIES
OF A PEOPLE

BY

WOODROW WILSON

NEW YORK AND GARDEN CITY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1913

THIS BOOK
I DEDICATE, WITH ALL MY HEART, TO EVERY MAN OR
WOMAN WHO MAY DERIVE FROM IT, IN HOWEVER
SMALL A DEGREE, THE IMPULSE OF
UNSELFISH PUBLIC SERVICE

PREFACE

I have not written a book since the campaign. I did not writethis book at all. It is the result of the editorial literary skillof Mr. William Bayard Hale, who has put together here in theirright sequences the more suggestive portions of my campaignspeeches.

And yet it is not a book of campaign speeches. It is adiscussion of a number of very vital subjects in the free form ofextemporaneously spoken words. I have left the sentences in theform in which they were stenographically reported. I have not triedto alter the easy-going and often colloquial phraseology in whichthey were uttered from the platform, in the hope that they wouldseem the more fresh and spontaneous because of their very lack ofpruning and recasting. They have been suffered to run theirunpremeditated course even at the cost of such repetition andredundancy as the extemporaneous speaker apparently inevitablyfalls into.

The book is not a discussion of measures or of programs. It isan attempt to express the new spirit of our politics and to setforth, in large terms which may stick in the imagination, what itis that must be done if we are to restore our politics to theirfull spiritual vigor again, and our national life, whether intrade, in industry, or in what concerns us only as families andindividuals, to its purity, its self-respect, and its pristinestrength and freedom. The New Freedom is only the old revived andclothed in the unconquerable strength of modern America.

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