Show phrases ascribed to great men all wrong the detroit news la Is responsible for this debunking of some great men of tle the past washington did not make use of the phrase entangling alliances in any of his speeches in hla his farewell address lie he stated it Is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world it was thomas jefferson who in his inaugural address addris spoke of deac commerce and honest friendship etli h all nations entangling alliances with ith none the saying about fooling the people Is commonly attributed to lincoln but is not mentioned in its 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 with regard to prohibition in a letter to senator borah long be for the presidential campaign mr hoover stated our country has deliberately undertaken a great social and economic experiment noble in motive and far reaching in purpose woodrow wilson never said this country was too proud to fight in a speech to newly naturalized citizens in philadelphia he sald 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 b so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it 1 right |