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Ray Lyman Wilbur Quotes

1875–1949 United States

Ray Lyman Wilbur (13 April 1875 – 26 June 1949) was a medical doctor, the third president of Stanford University, and the 31st United States Secretary of the Interior.

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We must get rid of the silly, sloppy idea that all people are equal in capacity.

If you know a better place to live right now than this country, get a ticket and try to get there.

[T]here is so much we might do if intelligence rather than emotions controlled the quality of the oncoming race.

It is common talk that every individual is entitled to economic security. The only animals and birds I know that have economic security are those that have been domesticated--and the economic security they have is controlled by the barbed-wire fence, the butcher's knife and the desire of others. They are milked, skinned, egged or eaten up by their protectors.

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