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Woodrow Wilson: I wish very much, gentlemen, that candor and truth might always be the standard of politics as well as the standard of…

On the recordJune 28, 1916
I wish very much, gentlemen, that candor and truth might always be the standard of politics as well as the standard of business.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Address to the Associated Advertising Clubs in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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