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Quotation from First Inaugural Address by Woodrow Wilson
“human cost, the cost of lives snuffed out, of energies overtaxed and broken, the fearful physical and spiritual cost to the men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years through”
First Inaugural Address, Inaugural address (Project Gutenberg #4938)
The "human cost" passage, Wilson's account of what industrial success had cost workers and families.
Citation: "human cost, the cost of lives snuffed out, of energies overtaxed and broken, the fearful physical and spiritual cost to the men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years through" — Woodrow Wilson, First Inaugural Address, Inaugural address (Project Gutenberg #4938). (id wilson-first-inaugural-address-q1)
