"The great trouble with most men is that……" — Newton D. Baker
"The great trouble with most men is that those who have been educated become uneducated just as soon as they stop inquiring and investigating life and its problems for themselves."
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6 Quotes by Newton D. Baker
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- That idea is so damned nonsensical and impossible that I'm willing to stand on the bridge of a battleship while…
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- A Fraternity, too, is of such character that after men have left college they delight to renew their own youth…
- The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.