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Woodrow Wilson: Business is all right so long as it is not sordid, and it cannot be sordid if it is shot through with ideals.

On the recordJune 28, 1916
Business is all right so long as it is not sordid, and it cannot be sordid if it is shot through with ideals.
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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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