“I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow, and I have borrowed a lot since I read it to you first.”

— Woodrow Wilson

Speech to the National Press Club http://books.google.com/books?id=8gLmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA439 (20 March 1914)
1910s

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“I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow, and I have borrowed a lot since I read it to you first.”

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