Andrew Dickson White quote: I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred...

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

Andrew Dickson White

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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).

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