"I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind."

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Source : On refusing permission for a team from Cornell University to visit Michigan to play a game of American football. Quoted in D Wallechinsky The People's Almanac (1975).

Andrew Dickson White

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