Candor and a sense of duty with regard to the responsibility so clearly imposed upon me by the Constitution in matters of legislation leave me no choice but to dissent.
Woodrow Wilson: “Candor and a sense of duty with regard to the responsibility so clearly imposed upon me by the Constitution in matters…”
On the recordJanuary 27, 1915
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