On the recordSeptember 29, 1918
We shall need their moral sense to preserve what is right and fine and worthy in our system of life as well as to discover just what it is that ought to be purified and reformed.
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presidency.ucsb.eduWe shall need their moral sense to preserve what is right and fine and worthy in our system of life as well as to discover just what it is that ought to be purified and reformed.
Address to the Senate on the Nineteenth Amendment
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