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Woodrow Wilson: We are accountable at the bar of history and must plead in utter frankness what purpose it is we seek to serve.

On the recordJune 13, 1917
We are accountable at the bar of history and must plead in utter frankness what purpose it is we seek to serve.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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