"Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light."

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Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over which they are set, and may thus be said to possess the souls of poets at the same time they display the coarser sense and the more vulgar sagacity of practical men of business.

— Woodrow Wilson