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Politics: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.— FISHER AMES — Speech. Jan., 1788.

Listen! John A. Logan is the Head Centre, the Hub, the King Pin, the Main Spring, Mogul, and Mugwump of the final plot by which partisanship was installed in the Commission.— ISAAC H. BROMLEY — Editorial in the

New York Tribune. Feb. 16, 1877. We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion.— SAMUEL D. BURCHARD — One of the

deputation visiting Mr. Blaine. Oct. 29, 1884. Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.— CALHOUN — Speech delivered in the House

of Representatives in 1812. It is a condition which confronts us-not a theory.— GROVER CLEVELAND — Annual Message.

Party honesty is party expediency.— GROVER CLEVELAND — Interview in New

York Commercial Advertiser. Sept. 19, 1889.

What is a Communist? One who has yearn ings For equal division of unequal earnings.— EBENEZER ELLIOT — Epigram.

It is more than a crime; it is a political fault.— FOUCHÉ — Memoirs of Fouché.

Give 'em Jessie. FREMONT'S Supporters in the Presidential Campaign of 1856. Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.— GOLDSMITH — Retaliation. L. 31.

I accept your nomination in the confident trust that the masses of our countrymen, North and South, are eager to clasp hands across the bloody chasm which has so long divided them.— HORACE GREELEY — Acceptance of the

Liberal Republican Nomination. May 20, 1872. He serves his party best who serves the country best.— RUTHERFORD B. HAYES — Inaugural

Address. March 5, 1877. The freeman casting, with unpurchased hand, The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.— O. W. HOLMES — Poetry. A Metrical Essay. L. 83.

Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.— MACAULAY — On Mitford's History of

S. Greece A weapon that comes down as still As snowflakes fall upon the sod; But executes a freeman's will, As lightning does the will of God; And from its force, nor doors nor locks Can shield you; 'tis the ballot-box.— PIERPONT — A Word from a Petitioner.

Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.— POPE — Moral Essays. Ep. I. L. 228.

A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect.— HORACE PORTER — A Bon-Mot in the

Cleveland-Blaine Campaign of 1884. Get thee glass eyes; And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not.— Shakespeare — King Lear. Act IV. Sc. 6. L. 174.

0, that estates, degrees, and offices Were not deriv'd corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!— Shakespeare — Merchant of Venice. Act II. Sc. 9. L. 41.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 4. L. 90.

As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about it? Say. C.— Wm. M. TWEED — The Ballot in 1871.