Political Quotes

His pure and lofty counsel fell unheeded upon the ears of his near neighbors, and the people of Massachusetts did not listen very patiently to lectures on political purity or reform in civil service from New York city.

He would undoubtedly have taken a very high place in the public and official life of his generation if he had found himself in accord with either of the great political parties.

He proceeded to attack, to promote his own ambitions, the fair name and fame of the Commonwealth itself.

I am afraid they have of late yielded for a time to one strong temptation and missed an opportunity for still greater glory, that never will come back.