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“Sir, I would rather be right than be President.”
Provenance
- Type:
- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3d793796fce10cbdd3a5b0ea128ecfa5fc7c56e056aeaa912926c4b87085cf01
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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