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Dwight Whitney Morrow was an American businessman, diplomat, and politician of Scots-Irish descent, best known as the U.S. ambassador who improved U.S.-Mexican relations, mediating the religious conflict in Mexico known as the Cristero rebellion , but also contributing to an easing of conflict between the two countries over oil. The Morrow Mission to Mexico was an "important step in the 'retreat from imperialism'". He was the father of Anne Morrow and father-in-law of Charles A. Lindbergh. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. January 1873 – 5. October 1931
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Famous Dwight Morrow Quotes

“The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.”

Dwight Morrow

From a letter to his son, as quoted in Harold Nicolson, Dwight Morrow (1935), p. 52

“Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.”

Dwight Morrow

Quoted in Outlook and Independent, Vol. 156 (1930), p. 289. Ascribed to an October 1930 speech in The Encarta Book of Quotations (2000), p. 672

“We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.”

Dwight Morrow

Quoted by Harold Nicolson in his biography Dwight Morrow (1935), p. 50 http://books.google.com/books?id=l3upji62bdIC&q=%22We+are+all+inclined+to+judge+ourselves+by+our+ideals%22&pg=PA50#v=onepage- 51 http://books.google.com/books?id=l3upji62bdIC&q=%22others+by+their+acts%22&pg=PA51#v=onepage

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