You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!

Quote by Henry Brooks Adams

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In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of...

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of...

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has...

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has...

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a...

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a...

You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks...

You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks...

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a...

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a...

Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of...

Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of...

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile

A friend in power is a friend lost.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible.

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being,...

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being,...

They know enough who know how to learn.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers,...

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers,...

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so...

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so...

Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the...

Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the...

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.