Dwight Morrow
American politician (1873-1931)
Dwight Whitney Morrow (January 11, 1873 – October 5, 1931) was an American businessman, politician, attorney, and diplomat. He served as United States Ambassador to Mexico and later was elected to the United States Senate.
Quotes
edit- Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
- Quoted in Outlook and Independent, Vol. 156 (1930), p. 289. Ascribed to an October 1930 speech in The Encarta Book of Quotations (2000), p. 672
- The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.
- From a letter to his son, as quoted in Harold Nicolson, Dwight Morrow (1935), p. 52
- We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
- Quoted by Harold Nicolson in his biography Dwight Morrow (1935), p. 50-51
