MYSTERY QUOTE
by Timothy O. Villard
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# 1. 9/24/09 9:57 AM by Gary - Williamson
Ulysses S. Grant 1865 Editor's Note: Nope
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# 2. 9/24/09 10:24 AM by albert
I woner if it would be too early in American History to suspect it was Ben Franklin. Editor's Note: Later
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# 3. 9/24/09 10:26 AM by Jim - Rochester
Gotta go with Gary
""For centuries England has relied on protection, has carried it to extremes, and has obtained satisfactory results from it. There is no doubt that it is to this system that it owes its present strength. After two centuries, England has found it convenient to adopt free trade because it thinks that protection can no longer offer it anything. Very well then, gentlemen, my knowledge of our country leads me to believe that within two hundred years, when America has gotten out of protection all that it can offer, it too will adopt free trade."
Ulysses Grant, president of the United States, (1868-1876)
http://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/220/47249.html Editor's Note: Right you are. My source said Lincoln but Gary nailed it. Thanks for the reference.
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# 4. 9/24/09 11:19 AM by BF
Gotta be careful with them liberal/socialist/commie sources, Tim.
They'll mislead you EVERY time! Editor's Note: Indeed, and with the internet, there's simply no excuse :-)
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