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Woodrow Wilson: It is, on the whole, safer to be explicit than to hedge.

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It is, on the whole, safer to be explicit than to hedge.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Wilson asserts that being explicit in discussions is generally safer than being vague.

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