Political Quotes

One cynic tells us that “A statesman is a politician who is dead,” and another cynic varies the epigram to read “A politician out of a job.” Patriotism cries “God give us men,” but the parties say “Give us votes and offices,” and Congress…

Whatever may be thought of them on this side of the Atlantic, their success in England was undeniable.

If you carry him off a prisoner he will be exchanged back into the fighting line, and we make nothing by it.

They brought some “red licker” and I asked for some sugar for a toddy, not failing to cite the familiar Sut Lovingood saying that “there were about seventeen round the door who said they’d take sugar in their’n.” The drink warmed me to my…