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Show Phrases Ascribed to Great Men All Wrong The Detroit News is responsible for this "debunking" of some great men of the past: Washington did not make use of the phrase "entangling alliances" In any of his speeches. Iu his farewell address he stated : "It Is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of, the foreign world." It was Thomas Jefferson Jef-ferson who in his inaugural address spoke of "peace, commerce and honest hon-est friendship with all nations, en-, en-, tangling alliances with none." The saying about "fooling the people" is commonly attributed to Lincoln, but is not mentioned in his biographies; it was probably a common proverb long before Lincoln ever used It, If he did so. Herbert Hoover never used the expression "noble experiment" experi-ment" with regard to prohibition. In a letter to Senator Borah long be- , for the Presidential campaign, Mr. Hoover stated: "Our country has fc deliberately undertaken a great social so-cial and economic experiment, noble no-ble in motive and far-reaching In purpose." pur-pose." Woodrow Wilson never said this country was too proud to fight. " In a speech to newly naturalized ' citizens in Philadelphia, he said: "Peace Is the leading and elevating Influence of the world and strife Is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight There Is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince con-vince others by force that It is right." |