Quotation by Woodrow Wilson

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924), U.S. Democrat, president. Attributed in The Image, ch. 4, Daniel J. Boorstin (1962).

on seeing D.W. Griffith's monumental epic of the Civil War, The Birth of a Nation, at the White House, Feb. 18, 1915.
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