Woodrow Wilson Quote

The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history...

The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: The new democracy; presidential messages, addresses, and other papers (1913-1917) (ed. 1926)