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Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler - all this might have been averted.

Reportedly said in September 1939, after Germany invaded Poland. The source of this quote was a 1940 Senate Document, News Articles on the Life and Works of Honorable William E. Borah, written by William Kinsey Hutchinson, then International News Service's Washington Bureau Chief. Hutchinson indicated that Borah said it to him in private "in words that ran like a prayer." There is no other public record of Borah saying this; Borah died before Hutchinson published the document, and thus could not deny or confirm it; its veracity is therefore unknown.