Franklin Delano Roosevelt/governor of New York 1929%e2%80%931932

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    “No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

    “[John] Brough’s majority is “glorious to behold.” It is worth a big victory in the field. It is decisive as to the disposition of the people to prosecute the war to the end. My regiment and brigade were both unanimous for Brough [the Union party candidate for governor of Ohio].”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    “Gimme the Plaza, the jet and $150 million, too.”
    —Headline, New York Post (Feb. 13, 1990)