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No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.

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Woodrow Wilson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1856
Born: December 28
Died: 1924
Died: February 23
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in that strange city. You hear politics until you wish that both parties were smothered in their own gas.
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