“If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.”

—  Woodrow Wilson

Rededication and restoration of Congress Hall http://books.google.com/books?id=w0IOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA30&dq=%22If+you+think+too+much%22, Philadelphia (25 October 1913)
1910s

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