“If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.”
Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer
“The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow, he cannot make business good; although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way.”
Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers (Columbia University Press, 1916)
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