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Famous quotes containing the words set and/or record:

    This is God’s country—Why set it on fire and make it look like hell?
    —For the State of Maine, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    Yesterday the Electoral Commission decided not to go behind the papers filed with the Vice-President in the case of Florida.... I read the arguments in the Congressional Record and can’t see how lawyers can differ on the question. But the decision is by a strictly party vote—eight Republicans against seven Democrats! It shows the strength of party ties.
    Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)