"One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils of the world can be cured by legislation."
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Members of the United States House of RepresentativesRepublican Party (United States) politiciansPoliticians from Maine
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Quoted by George W. Stimpson in A Book About American Politics (1952)
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