To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work. (Cordell Hull)

To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work.

Cordell Hull

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