Political Quotes

In my early life—as it were, my salad days—I aspired to becoming what old Simon Cameron called “one of those damned literary fellows” and Thomas Carlyle less profanely described as “a leeterary celeebrity.” But some malign fate always sat…

But McKinley’s doing was the crowning stroke of union and peace.

The exact reversal of the Lear suggestion in the last act was an inspiration, his own and not Boucicault’s.

The Northern radicals were wont to say, “Let the South go,” the more profane among them interjecting “to hell!” The Secessionists liked to prod the New Englanders with what the South was going to do when they got to Boston.