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Originally Processed With FOIA(s): FOIA Number: S S FOIA MARKER This is not a textual record. This is used as an administrative marker by the George Bush Presidential Library Staff. Record Group/Collection: George H.W. Bush Presidential Records Collection/Office of Origin: Speechwriting, White House Office of Series: Speech File Backup Files Subseries: Chron File, 1989-1993 OA/ID Number: 13775 Folder ID Number: 13775-003 Folder Title: Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee 10/3/91 [OA 8329] Stack: Row: Section: Shelf: Position: G 26 21 6 7 (Smith/Grossman) September 27, 1991 Assistant Trust Director, is leaving Draft Two Tina Middle ton, do we want to SENATE thank her for her service ? PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: SENATORIAL TRUST STATE FLOOR/WHISE HOUSE THURSDAY OCTOBER 3, 1991 4:30 P.M. I want to thank my good Texas friend Phil Gramm for that RR introduction. As head of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, Phil is going to help us do to opponents what Nolan Ryan does to his. // RR Let me also salute another Texan -- my good friend Bobby kind Holt. / A special thanks to RNC Chairman Clayton Yeutter, who could not be with us. / But most of all, my appreciation to you superf members of the Senatorial Trust who give of your time and money to a cause larger than yourselves. // It's great to be here near the start of the 1992 Campaign. ((I begin with high hopes. With democracy asserting itself all over the world, it's wonderful to see the emergence of the two- party system. Today Moscow -- tomorrow, the Congress. )) // I'm sure you remember the last time we controlled at least one house of the Congress. Remember those days -- 1981 through RR '86? How we had Republican committee chairmen -- won party-line votes -- how committees acted on our agenda? // I may be 67, but like you, I remember it well. We recall how Senate support launched more than 15 million new jobs. / We know how Republicans made American strength unparalleled around the world. / The Senate also set the stage for our current 2 domestic agenda -- making government serve the people -not the other way around. // ( (Last week, I was down in New Orleans, where the football Saints are off to their fastest-ever start. I recalled how a few years back, things were so lean Saints' fans wore paper bags over their head. / Well, after next year the only ones doing that will be Democrats. )) / The reason: GOP stands for growth, opportunity, and prosperity. // Our domestic agenda can achieve those goals -- but only if we change a Congress bent on giving people the business -- not 3 doing the people's business. // As I told the Eagles luncheòn two weeks ago, "There's something wrong when it's easier to get Iraqi forces out of Kuwait than it is for the Administration to get domestic programs through Congress." // If Congress won't clean up its act, we have to clean up the Congress. // Look at crime and transportation. Last March 6, I said we could pass bills in both fields in 100 days. It's 212 days later, and Congress still hasn't acted. We introduced the most comprehensive crime package in our nation's history -- and BR Congress hasn't passed it. We introduced a transportation package that would let states decide how to use their own money - - and Congress hasn't passed it. Look at capital gains -- which would unleash a new wave of Eagles Sura opportunity. The Democratic leadership wouldn't even permit a vote -- unless we would raise income taxes. in 3 The list, sadly, is endless -- almost a dishonor roll. Education. For two years we have urged Congress to pass our Educational Excellence Act -- asking it to help make America No. /Eagles 1 by the year 2000. Where's Congress? It's been on recess. / Civil rights. I want a bill that promotes true equality. Democrats want a quota bill. / The environment. Recently, I signed into law the Clean Air Act. Yet Congress refuses to go further by funding our America the Beautiful Program. // Sua Leg , Energy. Our energy package encourages innovation and conservation. But a Congress that talks about action, won't act. Ours is an agenda to shout about -- an agenda to be proud of. It's not just a record to stand upon. It's a record for America to build upon. / Yes, we need to elect a Republican President next year. / I'm not saying who, mind you. ((Incidentally, someone asked Barbara if she minded Tom Harkin constantly referring to me as "George Herbert Walker Bush." She said no, because she was sure News reports no one would ever refer to him as "Mr. President. ") ) // Yet the Presidency is not enough. Our domestic agenda can't be enacted through Presidential vetoes alone. We need a Republican Senate to give the American people laws they want -- laws that advance their lives. / We need a Republican Senate to oppose an agenda of special interests -- and support the general interest of the greatest Nation in the world. // 4 We need a Republican Senate to confirm qualified candidates for important positions. // We must make the most of our strength. In 1986, 35,000 more RR Republican votes in the six tightest Senate races would have given us a 51-49 majority. Next year, by defining the issues -- by running campaigns that are hard fought, well-led, and, yes, amply financed -- we can give the Senate back to the American people. In the end, it's all up to us. / So let's do what must be done to ensure a Republican majority. / We have superb Senate candidates. We have a magnificent agenda. We have you -- the greatest team any party could ever have. Thank you for your support, and God bless the United States of America. # # # # PN6081 IN Reput The INTERNATIONAL THESAURUS of QUOTATIONS compiled by Rhoda Thomas Tripp CROWELL TYC 1834 RENCE 4008 THOMAS Y. CROWELL, PUBLISHERS ESTABLISHED 1834 NEW YORK 704. Political Parties 484 485 the personal benefits that he will derive who from his party's victory. MILTON RAKOVE, ADA POLITENESS The Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2. See 194. Courtesy; 559. Manners 1965. there 10. The more you read and observe with about this Politics thing, you got to admit you 704. POLITICAL PARTIES that each party is worse than the other. The FRA' See also 175. Conservatism; 533. Liberalism; one that's out always looks the best. WILL (194- 667. Partisanship; 705. Politics and ROGERS, "Breaking into the Writing Game," 3. Politicians; 770. Radicalism The Illiterate Digest (1924). profe 11. There is a hundred things to single organ 1. All political parties die at last of swal- you out for promotion in party politics be- Educ lowing their own lies. JOHN ARBUTHNOT, sides ability. WILL ROGERS, The Autobiogra- 4. quoted in Richard Garnett's Life of Emer- phy of Will Rogers (1949), 13. ginn son (1887). 12. Every Harvard class should have one HEN] 2. Those who think that all virtue is to be Democrat to rescue it from oblivion. WILL Adan found in their own party principles push ROGERS, The Autobiography of Will Rogers 5. matters to extremes; they do not consider (1949), 19. gle that disproportion destroys a state. ARIS- 13. Even more important than winning beco TOTLE, Politics (4th c. B.C.), 5.9, tr. Benjamin the election is governing the nation. That is tures Jowett. the test of a political party-the acid, final house 3. Whin a man gets to be my age, he test. ADLAI STEVENSON, acceptance speech, Henr ducks pol-itical meetin's, an' r-reads th' pa- Democratic National Convention, July 26, 6. pers an' weighs th' ividence an' th' ar- 1952. doctr pro-argymints an' con-argymints, 14. An independent is the guy who JEAN -an' makes up his mind ca'mly, an' votes wants to take the politics out of politics. AD- by Li th' Dimmycratic ticket. FINLEY PETER LAI STEVENSON, "The Art of Politics," The 7. DUNNE, "On the Hero in Politics," Mr. Doo- Stevenson Wit (1966). of na ley in Peace and in War (1898). 15. The elephant has a thick skin, a head cal ai 4. I often think it's comical / How Nature full of ivory, and as everyone who has seen a 1.2, t always does contrive / That every boy and circus parade knows, proceeds best by 8. every gal, / That's born into the world alive, grasping the tail of his predecessor. ADLAI his b. / Is either a little Liberal, / Or else a little STEVENSON, "The Art of Politics," The Ste- he d Conservative! W. S. GILBERT, Iolanthe venson Wit (1966). (1896 (1882), 2. 16. Every prince who puts himself at the 9. 5. If your heart is on the left, don't carry head of a party, and succeeds, is sure of be- over your portfolio on the right. Graffito written ing praised to all eternity, if the party lasts boys during French student revolt, May 1968. that long. VOLTAIRE, "Theodosius," Philo- he's 6. He serves his party best who serves sophical Dictionary (1764). M. B. the country best. RUTHERFORD B. HAYES, York Inaugural Address, March 5, 1877. 10. 7. Let us not seek the Republican answer 705. POLITICS AND POLITICIANS what or the Democratic answer, but the right an- See also 130. Citizens; 169. Congress; HENR swer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the 230. Demagoguery; 393. Government; Plyme past. Let us accept our own responsibility 496. International Relations; 11. for the future. JOHN F. KENNEDY, address, 614. Nation; 645. Officialism; an art Loyola College Alumni Banquet, Baltimore, 704. Political Parties; 724. Presidency; AMBF Md., Feb. 18, 1958. 755. Public Office; 923. State; 1881 8. Under democracy one party always 924. Statesmen and Statesmanship; 12. devotes its chief energies to trying to prove 1030. Voting quera that the other party is unfit to rule-and BROSI both commonly succeed, and are right. H. L. 1. When the political columnists say "Ev- 1881 MENCKEN, Minority Report (1956), 330. ery thinking man" they mean themselves, 13. 9. The amount of effort put into a cam- and when the candidates appeal to "Every taken paign by a worker expands in proportion to intelligent voter" they mean everybody vectiv Ref. ANW81 $53a Simpson's Contemporary Quotations Compiled by James B Simpson 11 Foreword by Daniel J Boorstin Houghton Mifflin Company Boston 1988 PROPERTY OF LICRARY I Y EXEC F OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT Ronald POLITICS & GOVERNMENT Reagan 1 To sit back hoping that someday, someway, some- ed in dedication of Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta, ib RICHARD H one will make things right is to go on feeding the 2 Oct 86 1 He stampe crocodile, hoping he will eat you last-but eat you JAMES RESTON ter of ten he will. vives. To News summaries 7 Nov 74 15 Half circus and half Supreme Court. anti-intelle 2 Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profes- On national political conventions. NY Times 12 Jul 60 or merely sion. I have come to realize that it bears a very close 16 How Kennedy knew the precise drop in milk con- The word resemblance to the first. sumption in 1960, the percentage rise in textile im- a powerfu LA Herald-Examiner 3 Mar 78 ports from 1957 to 1960 and the number of speeches On Sen: 3 With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing cleared by the Defense Department is not quite agogue" clear, but anyway, he did. He either overwhelmed the realities of today we will achieve our des- 2 He was a tiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind you with decimal points or disarmed you with a cal. smile and a wisecrack. to see. ib To Conservative Political Action Conference 17 Mar 78 On President John F Kennedy's press conferences, quoted by Ralph G Martin A Hero for Our Time Mac- 3 McCarthy 4 I was alarmed at my doctor's report: He said I was millan 83 many tiny sound as a dollar. 17 An election is a bet on the future, not a popularity son exhau As Republican presidential nominee 17 Jul 80 test of the past. ib 5 I believe Moses was 80 when God first commis- NY Times 10 Oct 84 sioned him for public service. ROBERT R ELLIOT L RICHARDSON On running for president at age 73, address at Dixon IL 4 Apartheid 6 Feb 84 18 Washington is a city of cocker spaniels. It's a dignifies. 6 Thomas Jefferson once said, "We should never city of people who are more interested in being pet- Address judge a president by his age, only by his works." ted and admired, loved, than rendering the exercise the Spir. And ever since he told me that I stopped worrying. of power. NY Times 13 Jul 82 MARK Russ ib 7 There were so many candidates on the platform that ALAN RICHMAN 5 He'll tell y there were not enough promises to go around. Though he 19 She enjoys driving her restless mind in the express Eatin' lots On Democratic presidential primary debate in New lane. Hampshire. Newsweek 6 Feb 84 With a sau On Senator Paula Hawkins of Florida, People 20 Oct 86 On Geo 8 Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, Bush." but Democrats believe every day is April 15. HYMAN G RICKOVER in NY 7 NY Times 10 Oct 84 20 If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bu- 9 If I had as much make-up on as he did, I'd have reaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy WILLIAM SA looked younger, too. won't. 6 I want my On "age issue" during television debates with Walter F Quoted by William A Clinkscales Jr after Senate com- perienced Mondale. Wall Street Journal 11 Oct 84 mittee delayed confirming him as director of the Selec- ed-not m tive Service System. NY Times 3 Nov 86 10 Shouldn't someone tag Mr Kennedy's bold new On artf imaginative program with its proper age? Under the PAT ROBERTSON Ronald I tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first 21 The first words I spoke as a baby were Mommy, 7 No one fl launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the Daddy and constituency. America is idea of a government being Big Brother. On growing up in a prominent Virginia political family, On Cong 1960 letter to Richard M Nixon disclosed in final weeks NY Times 12 Feb 87 US flow of 1984 presidential campaign. NY Times 27 Oct 84 8 One differ 11 I'll be like Scarlett O'Hara-I'll think about it to- ANDY ROONEY American morrow. 22 The only people who say worse things about politi- in cash an Refraining from endorsement of Vice President George cians than reporters do are other politicians. States pay Bush for 1988 Republican presidential nomination. ib 12 60 Minutes CBS TV 7 Oct 84 Feb 85 tages taker 23 I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra ib 13 No 12 Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get and a little more about his arms sales to Iran. everything I asked for. I should jump off the cliff 9 The first la with the flag flying-go down in flames. No. if I can On press coverage of President Ronald Reagan's pros- the holder tate operation. ib 11 Jan 87 get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to ib 2 Mar get I'll take that and then continue to try to get ELEANOR ROOSEVELT 10 Decide on the rest in the future. 24 Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? win, beca On criticism of early political compromises. ib 6 Oct 85 In small places, close to home-so close and so can't beat 13 You know, it was only a generation ago that actors small that they cannot be seen on any map of the "The Pe couldn't be buried in the churchyard. world. Expressing belief that people underestimated him be- ANTHONY S Quoted in NY Times 26 Dec 65 cause of his acting background. ib 11 The real r 14 Recession in when your neighbor loses his job. De- ETHEL AND JULIUS ROSENBERG center of a pression is when you lose yours. And recovery is 25 We are the first victims of American fascism. ing circles when Jimmy Carter loses his. Letter released by their attorney on the day they were own profe 1980 campaign remark recalled when Reagan participat- electrocuted for espionage, news summaries 19 Jun 53 others onl 38 POLITICS & GOVERNMENT JOHN G DIEFENBAKER, Prime Minister of Canada EDWIN W EDWARDS, Governor of Louisiana 1 The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No 11 [He's] so slow that he takes an hour and a half to one can make head nor tail of them and they never watch 60 Minutes. are seen twice in the same place. On 1983 Republican opponent David C Treen, NY Address at London. Ontario, 5 May 62 Times 22 Oct 83 12 People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not LLOYD DOGGETT true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors. 2 Sometimes when you get in a fight with a skunk, you On 12th grand jury probe in a decade, ib 24 Oct 83 can't tell who started it. 13 [I could not lose unless I was] caught in bed with a On his opponent for a seat in the Texas legislature, Time dead girl or a live boy. 5 Nov 84 On 1983 race against David C Treen. recalled on his ROBERT J DOLE, US Senator grand jury indictment for racketeering and fraud, Time 11 Mar 85 3 History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Wash- ington party a few weeks ago of three ex-presidents: JOHN EHRLICHMAN, White House special assistant Carter, Ford and Nixon-See No Evil, Hear No 14 I think we ought to let him hang there, let him twist Evil and Evil. slowly, slowly in the wind. To Washington Gridiron Club dinner 26 Mar 83 To presidential counsel John Dean on acting FBI Direc- 4 We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire. tor L Patrick Gray, taped conversation 7 Mar 73 On 1988 Republican National Convention in New Or- 15 I was under the assumption that it would be con- leans, NY Times 24 Jan 87 ducted as a normal investigation, not as some kind of a second-story job. SEAN DONLON, Irish Ambassador to US On break-in of office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist 5 Democrats give away their old clothes; Republicans after Ellsberg's leak of the Pentagon Papers, Washing- wear theirs. Republicans employ exterminators; ton Post 26 Jul 73 Democrats step on the bugs. Democrats eat the fish DWIGHT D EISENHOWER, 34th US President they catch; Republicans stuff 'em and hang 'em on the wall. 16 Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on Quoted in Washington Post 23 Oct 81 the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. TC DOUGLAS, leader of Canadian New Democratic Party Presidential campaign speech. quoted in Time 6 Oct 52 6 The Liberals talk about a stable government but we 17 We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard don't know how bad the stable is going to smell. words. News summaries 30 Oct 65 1952 campaign remark that was recalled after more than a dozen Harvard men were named to high positions in MAUREEN DOWD the Eisenhower administration, ib 26 Jan 53 7 His House colleagues still call him "Jackie One 18 I thought it completely absurd to mention my name Note"-joking that if you ask him how to solve the in the same breath as the presidency. problem of teenage pregnancy, he'll tell you to cut Recalling his initial reaction to suggestions that he run for office, Mandate for Change Doubleday 63 taxes. "Is Jack Kemp Mr Right?" NY Times 28 Jun 87 19 [I despise people who] go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center. MARK DUFFY Time 25 Oct 63 8 In Louisiana we don't bet on football games We 20 I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea. bet on whether a politician is going to be indicted or 1952 campaign promise that was credited with winning not. the election, quoted in Life 5 Jul 68 On winning wager that Governor Edwin W Edwards SAM ERVIN, US Senator would be charged with racketeering and fraud. NY Times 3 Mar 85 21 Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What JOHN P EAST, US Senator meat do they eat that makes them grow so great? 9 The average American doesn't know the difference News conference during Watergate investigation. Time 16 Apr 73 between a Contra and a caterpillar or between a San- dinista and a sardine. 22 I'm not going to let anybody come down at night Opposing House-Senate conference agreement to con- like Nicodemus and whisper something in my ear tinue ban on covert aid to Nicaraguan Contras. NY that no one else can hear. That is not executive priv- Times 12 Oct 84 ilege; it is poppycock. At Senate Watergate hearings, US News & World Re- EDMONTON JOURNAL port 28 May 73 10 The eyes are Paul Newman blue. His hair has the 23 If the many allegations made to this date are true, swoop of the Robert Redford style and the voice the then the burglars who broke into the headquarters resonance of a Lorne Greene school of broadcast- of the Democratic National Committee at the Wa- ing. The jaw is by Gibraltar. tergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of On Brian Mulroney, newly elected prime minister of every citizen. Canada. quoted in NY Times 6 Sep 84 ib 26 PN6081 .p47 WH t: PETER'S QUOTATIONS IDEAS FOR by Laurence J. Peter OUR TIME TER'S QUOTATIONS HE PETER PLAN IDUAL INSTRUCTION By ¡ROOM INSTRUCTION PEUTIC INSTRUCTION LAURENCE J. PETER CHER EDUCATION 'ETER PRESCRIPTION CIPLE (WITH RAYMOND HULL) CRIPTIVE TEACHING WILLIAM MORROW AND COMPANY, INC. NEW YORK 1977 430 RESPONSIBILTY The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. -George Bernard Shaw W.H. REFERENCE CENTER REPUBLICAN PARTY / REPUBLICANS The Republican Party either corrupts its liberals or it expels them. -Harry S Truman Every Republican candidate for President since 1936 has been nominated by the Chase National Bank. -Robert A. Taft The Republican Convention [1928] opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see his way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking. -Will Rogers The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election year. -Will Rogers The trouble with the Republican Party is that it has not had a new idea for thirty years. -Woodrow Wilson RESPONSIBILITY The price of greatness is responsibility. -Winston Churchill Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him. -Booker T. Washington Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every posses- sion, a duty. -John D. Rockefeller, Jr. I feel the responsibility of the occasion. Responsibility is propor- tionate to opportunity. -Woodrow Wilson To let oneself be bound by a duty from the moment you see it approaching is part of the integrity that alone justifies responsibility. -Dag Hammarskjöld The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man. -Roy L. Smith Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will-his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals. -Albert Schweitzer DEVIL 159 158 DEMOCRATIC PARTY / DEMOCRATS When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss; when he's in The upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its the Republican Party he's a leader. -Harry S Truman future. -Ayn Rand If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies stop telling the truth about them. -Adlai Stevenson it is the only sacred thing. -Anatole France * * DESTINY Where the earth is underpopulated and there is an economic demand Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a for men, democracy is inevitable. That state of things cannot be thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. permanent. Therefore, democracy cannot last. It contains no abso- -William Jennings Bryan lute and eternal truths. -William Graham Sumner There is a destiny that makes us brothers, none goes his way alone. I have the happiness to know that it [democracy] is a rising, and All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own. not a setting sun. -Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) -Edwin Markham * * I am the master of my fate;/I am the captain of my soul. We have watched American democracy at close hand for many -William E. Henley years and we believe few governments are institutionally so suscep- Anatomy is destiny. -Sigmund Freud tible to dictatorship as this one. -Gerald Johnson Trend is not destiny. -Lewis Mumford Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -George Bernard Shaw Man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling im- mensity. His destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. -Jacques Monod DEMOCRATIC PARTY / DEMOCRATS There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. -Albert Camus Thomas Jefferson founded the Democratic Party; Franklin Roose- Fate is nonawareness. -Jan Kott velt dumbfounded it. -Dewey Short Man blames fate for other accidents, but feels personally responsible Republicans sleep in twin beds-some even in separate rooms. That when he makes a hole in one. -Horizons magazine is why there are more Democrats. -Will Stanton Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free. The Democratic Party is like a mule-without pride of ancestry or -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) hope of posterity. -Edmund Burke (1729-1797) He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned. I belong to no organized political party-I am a Democrat. -Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) -Will Rogers We have mastered a destiny which broke another man [Napoleon] Its [the Democratic Party's] leaders are always troubadors of trouble; a hundred and thirty years ago. crooners of catastrophe A Democratic President is doomed to -Adolf Hitler (Owner of a somewhat clouded crystal ball) proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him. The future is hidden even from the men who made it. -Clare Boothe Luce -Anatole France If the person you are trying to diagnose politically is some sort of DEVIL intellectual, the chances are two to one he is a Democrat. -Vance Packard May you get to Heaven a half hour before the Devil knows you're make a damn fool Ref. PN6081 P55 WH Respectfully Quoted A Dictionary of Quotations Requested from the ! Congressional Research Service edited by Suzy Platt 11 Congressional Reference Division 1 4 PROPERTY OF LIBRARY EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT & LIBRARY OF CONGRESS . WASHINGTON . 1989 Republican Party 1599 I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress. Attributed to FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Unverified. 1600 I knew that however bad the Republican party was, the Democratic party was much worse. The elements of which the Republican party was composed gave better ground for the ultimate hope of the success of the colored man's cause than those of the Democratic party. FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, chapter 47, p. 579 (1941). 1601 I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety. FREDERICK DOUGLASS, letter to men from Petersburg, Virginia, August 15, 1888.- Douglass papers, Library of Congress. The Petersburg men had written Douglass seeking advice about supporting John M. Langston as their Republican candidate for Congress. He would be their first black representative, but earlier he had worked against the Republican party. Douglass called him a trickster and said not to support anyone "whose mad ambition would imperil the success of the Republican party." 1602 Indeed there are some Republicans I would trust with anything-anything, that is, except public office. ADLAI E. STEVENSON, governor of Illinois, campaign speech, Illinois state fair, Springfield, Illinois, August 14, 1952.-Major Campaign Speeches of Adlai E. Stevenson, 1952, p. 14 (1953). Responsibility 1603 A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. ALBERT EINSTEIN, "The World as I See It," Ideas and Opinions, trans. Sonja Bargmann, p. 8 (1954). 1604 For of those to whom much is given, much is required. And when at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each of us-recording whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities to the state-our success or failure, in whatever office we hold, will be measured by the answers to four questions: First, were we truly men of courage-with the courage to stand up to one's ene- mies-and the courage to stand up, when necessary, to one's associates-the courage to resist public pressure, as well as private greed? Secondly, were we truly men of judgment-with perceptive judgment of the future as well as the past-of our mistakes as well as the mistakes of others-with enough wisdom to know what we did not know and enough candor to admit it. Third, were we truly men of integrity-men who never ran out on either the princi- ples in which we believed or the men who believed in us-men whom neither financial gain nor political ambition could ever divert from the fulfillment of our sacred trust? 300 The Quotable Quotations Book Compiled by Alec Lewis 11 THOMAS Y. CROWELL, Publishers New York Established 1834 / DEMOCRACY THE DEPRESSION: ECONOMIC / 77 DEMOCRACY also see EQUALITY; LIBERTY; POLITICS Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know emocracy, like any noncoercive relationship, rests on a shared under- and say that it isn't. anding of limits. BILL MOYERS, Newsweek, June 3, 1975 ELIZABETH DREW, Washington Journal, 1975 So Two Cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two ompromise is a noble word that sums up democracy. because it permits criticism. Two cheers are quite enough: there is no SAUL ALINSKY occasion to give three. Only Love, the Beloved Republic, deserves that. E. M. FORSTER, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951 emocracy begins with a free discussion of our sins. W.H. AUDEN, quoted on "Bill Moyers' Journal," PBS, June 5, 1973 DEMOCRATS/DEMOCRATIC PARTY also see REPUBLI- o democracy is possible without friction. CANS/REPUBLICAN PARTY NICHOLAS VON HOFFMANN, Make-Believe Presidents, 1978 The Democratic Party is not one-but two-political parties with the S a lot of people pulling together who hate each other's guts. "CALUCCIS DEPARTMENT," CBS-TV, Sept. 8, 1973 same name. They unite only once every two years-to wage political campaigns. ATTRIBUTED TO DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER emocracy is the most difficult of all forms of government, since it re- ires the widest spread of intelligence, and we forgot to make our- You can never underestimate the ability of the Democrats to wet their ves intelligent when we made ourselves sovereign. finger and hold it to the wind. WILL AND ARIEL DURANT, The Lessons of History, 1968 RONALD REAGAN, quoted in Newsweek, July 10, 1978 emocracy is not merely an electoral parade, but is a sincere effort to Have you ever tried to split sawdust? ep in step with the slowest soldier in the battalion. GIUSEPPE PREZZOLINI, Machiavelli, introduction to Italian edition, EUGENE J. McCARTHY, when accused of splitting the party, Quote, May 19, 1968 1927 Listening to Democrats complain about inflation is like listening to licies are rarely made in a democracy; they emerge. GARTH L. MANGUM, Annals of American Academy of Political and germs complain about disease. SPIRO AGNEW, quoted in Newsweek, July 20, 1970 Social Science, Sept. 1969 e weakness of democracy-the reason why Karl Marx and others There are only six Democrats in all of Hinsdale County and you, you ust be laughing in their graves-is precisely that it's about winning son of a bitch, you ate five of them. ATTRIBUTED TO COLORADO JUDGE SENTENCING ALFRED E. PACKER FOR tes. No government can afford to have a survival strategy because CANNIBALIZING FIVE MEMBERS OF PROSPECTING PARTY, 1874, quoted in at means losing votes. Newsweek, Aug. 22, 1977 ANDREW KNIGHT, Newsweek, Jan. 13, 1975 e reason democracy doesn't work is that, while bribing of individual ters. is illegal, the bribing of whole classes of voters is not. THE DEPRESSION: ECONOMIC also see DECADE: 1930- Dublin Opinion, from Quote, Oct. 29, 1967 1939 emocracy is shaking my nerves to pieces. There's a lot of nostalgia for the Depression, though obviously by peo- HENRY ADAMS, Democracy, 1880 ple who didn't live through it. HILTON KRAMER, New York Times, Dec. 26, 1972 226 / REPUBLICANS/REPUBLICAN PARTY It is that cluster of memories and myths, hopes and images, rites and customs that pulls together the life of a person or group into a meaningful whole. HARVEY Cox, The Seduction of the Spirit, 1973 There is only one religious problem-being religious. SOLON B. COUSINS, Quote, Oct. 2, 1966 W.H. INFORMATION CENTER Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the an- swers hurt. Such an idea of religion makes religion universally human, but it certainly differs from what is usually called religion. PAUL TILLICH, Saturday Evening Post, June 14, 1958 Organized religion is most efficient when it serves the status quo. WILLIAM CUTTER, speech at Central Conference of American Rabbis, June 1969 We must respect the other fellow's religion ... to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful. H. L. MENCKEN, Minority Report, 1956 Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible. STANISLAW LEM, The Star Diaries, 1976 The enormous fatigue of trying to live without religion. DONALD BARR, Who Pushed Humpty Dumpty?, 1971 REPUBLICANS/REPUBLICAN PARTY also see DEMO- CRATS/DEMOCRATIC PARTY An endangered species. SIDNEY VERBA, quoted in Newsweek, Aug. 23, 1976 If Jerry Brown says we have to cut down on big government, that's re- garded as a liberal coup. If a Republican says that, he's considered as a first-class sonofabitch. WILLIAM STEIGER, congressman, quoted in Newsweek, Aug. 23, 1976 Republicans never have mastered the knack, as Democrats seem to have, of winking while knifing an opponent's jugular. JAMES M. NAUGHTON ON INTRA-PARTY CONFLICTS, New York Times, May 9, 1976 RESEARCH / 227 opes and images, rites It seems to be a law of nature that Republicans are more boring than person or group into a Democrats. STEWART ALSOP, Newsweek, Dec. 30, 1968 973 For some goddam reason Republicans can't write. gious. HENRY R. LUCE ON WHY so MANY LIBERALS WERE ON HIS STAFF, quoted in W.A. Swanberg, Luce and His Empire, 1972 restion of the meaning Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party. swers, even if the an- WALTER LIPPMANN, obituary in New York Times, Dec. 15, 1974 on universally human, ed religion. Now you can't make the Republican Party pure by more contributions 4, 1958 because contributions are what got it where it is today. WILL ROGERS, four decades before Watergate, quoted in Richard Ket- es the status quo. chum, Will Rogers, 1973 ce of American Rabbis, True Republicanism requires that every American shall be free to become as unequal as he can. to the extent that we How to Behave, 1850 etiquette book RESEARCH essary and altogether Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they're blind. MARSTON BATES, Quote, Nov. 5, 1967 ligion. The chance of the bread falling butter-side-down is directly propor- 1971 tional to the cost of the project. ANONYMOUS TY also see DEMO- You can't make a baby in a month by getting nine women pregnant. RESEARCHER ON CRASH PROJECTS, quoted in Forbes, Oct. 15, 1974 Since one must publish to get grants, and promotion in many institu- 976 tions hinges on the size of the grants, publication and grants rather than discovery become the goals in the laboratory. vernment, that's re- ERNEST BOREK, New York Times, Jan. 22, 1975 t, he's considered as Among advocates of any group-black, white or Oriental-social re- week, Aug. 23, 1976 search is welcome only to the degree that it can be used to advance a desired cause. Democrats seem to WALTER GOODMAN, New York Times, June 17, 1979 ar. S, New York Times, Ninety percent of the historical researcher's time is spent at the intel- lectual level of collecting postage stamps. LAWRENCE STONE, quoted in Princeton Alumni Weekly, Oct. 18, 1971 NN6081 J23 WH t:- Crown's Book of Political Quotations Over 2500 Lively Quotes from Plato to Reagan by Michael Jackman CROWN PUBLISHERS, INC. NEW YORK 47 10 le al le 11 e, n Democratic Party If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. Adlai Stevenson I belong to no organized party-I am a Democrat. Will Rogers Republicans sleep in twin beds-some even in separate rooms. That is why there are more Democrats. William Stanton You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat. Jacqueline Onassis The Democratic party is like a man riding backward in a carriage. It never sees a thing until it has gone by. Benjamin Butler We do not promise what we know cannot be delivered by man, God, or the Democratic party. Lawrence O'Brien I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers were Democrats. Will Rogers 211 the best 1 Hawes immedi- e face of onalized ent clus- hainess dy poor Republican Party her own Stanton The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election years. Will Rogers The trouble with the Republican Party is that it has not had a new idea for thirty years. Woodrow Wilson Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar. Abraham Lincoln Every Republican candidate for President since 1936 has been nomi- nated by the Chase National Bank. Robert A. Taft The people are wise-wiser than the Republicans think. Adlai Stevenson The Republican Convention [1928] opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see his way to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking. Will Rogers The Republican Party either corrupts its liberals or it expels them. Harry S Truman The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle. Eugene McCarthy 212 REPUBLICAN PARTY The Republicans have their splits after the election and Democrats have theirs just before an election. Will Rogers Republicans no longer worship at the shrine of a balanced budget. Jack Kemp PN6081 H28 THE E: MOVIE QUOTE BOOK HARRY HAUN // LIPPINCOTT & CROWELL NEW YORK RESPECT 285 f my life, 2. (Screenplay by Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and East, I'll 'Can't make it.' 'Can't make it.' That's all I Richard L. Breen; adaptation by Robert Harari; hat I was ever hear from you. It used to be because my based on an original story by David Shaw) husband was your friend. Well, he's dead. He's been dead for six months. What's wrong with ALSO SEE: Indecision-3; Lies-4. exit from of the Au- me now? Why can't you make it?" s play -Ida Lupino pressuring George Raft for some atten- tion in Raoul Walsh's They Drive by Night RESPECT (Screenplay by Jerry Wald and Richard Macaulay; 1. based on LONG HAUL, a novel by A. I. Bezzerides) "You know, on the-on the screen, I'm a-you do. That's 3. know; in private life, I'm a-well, you know! nly one I "Explain! Explain! That's all I've ever done is But, whatever I do, I-I still respect lovely be called explain. I'm tired of explaining, sick and tired things. And you're lovely. You understand?" of it. I don't want to have to explain-not to -Fredric March leveling with Janet Gaynor in Wil- story with you. You're my son. You're in with me. My flesh liam A. Wellman's A Star Is Born Old Ac- and blood. You wear my clothes, eat my food, (Screenplay by Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell live in my home. I don't have to explain to you. and Robert Carson; based on an original story by ore If I'm guilty, then you're guilty, too. You under- William A. Wellman and Robert Carson) ruten) stand me? You're guilty, too." 2. -Edward G. Robinson resenting Burt Lancaster's "Oh, you mistake me, my dear. I have the high- bered?" questions about a wartime crime in Irving Reis's All est respect for your nerves. I have heard you My Sons yramids mention them with consideration for the last (Screenplay by Chester Erskine; based on the play 20 years." by Arthur Miller) ans about -Edmund Gwenn calming his excitable wife (Mary me's The ALSO SEE: Appearances-6; Stupid-1. Boland) in Robert Z. Leonard's Pride and Prejudice (Screenplay by Aldous Huxley and Jane Murfin; on the based on the play by Helen Jerome and novel by Jane Austen) REPUBLICANS Γ-2; Let- 3. 1. 3; Pride- "Hello. I told you never to call me here; don't (a) "It's so spooky down here. Do you believe in you know where I am? Now look, baby, I-I reincarnation-you know that dead people can't talk to you now, the-my President needs come back?" me. Of course, Bucky would rather be there (b) "You mean like the Republicans?" with you. Of course, it isn't only physical. I -(b) Bob Hope neutralizing the ominous question of deeply respect you as a human being. Someday (a) Nydia Westman in Elliott Nugent's The Cat and I'm going to make you Mrs. Buck Turgidson. the Canary All right, now listen, hon, you can go back to e don't (Screenplay by Walter De Leon and Lynn sleep now-Bucky'll be back there just as soon you any Starling; based on the play by John Willard) as he can. All right. Listen, suge: don't forget to say your prayers." 2. y Bogart asure of "Don't tell me it's subversive to kiss a Republi- -George C. Scott getting a less-than-pressing phone can." call from his girlfriend (Tracy Reed) during a War Room crisis in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: novel -John Lund romancing an Iowa congresswoman How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Jean Arthur) in Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair (Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern WH Political Quotations A Collection of Notable Sayings on Politics from Antiquity through 1989 Daniel B. Baker, Editor Gale Research Inc. DETROIT NEW YORK LONDON 11 REVOLUTION Political Quotations 3176. For a workingman or woman to vote Republican this year is the same as a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders. -Walter F. Mondale, Rolling Stone, Nov 4, 1976 3177. My answer to why did I choose the Democratic Party is that I spent three years in Washington under a Republican administration. -Dixy Lee Ray, Wall Street Journal, Mar 15, 1976 3178. There's nothing wrong with the Republican Party that double-digit inflation won't cure. -Richard Scammon, Guardian Weekly, Nov 12, 1978 3179. (Republicans are) men of narrow vision who are afraid of the future and whose leaders are inclined to shoot from the hip. -Jimmy Carter, Time, Jul 28, 1980 3180. Thou shalt not criticize other Republicans. -Ronald Reagan, Time, Jul 28, 1980 3181. We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich. -Ronald Reagan, remarks at a Republican fundraising dinner in Washington, D.C., May 4, 1982 3182. Republicians believe every day is the Fourth of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15. -Ronald Reagan, The New York Times, Oct 10, 1984 REVOLUTION 3183. Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft. -Bible, 1 Samuel, ca. 800 B.C. 3184. Is it not a simple fact that in any form of government revolution always starts from the outbreak of internal dissension in the ruling class? The constitution cannot be upset so long as that class is of one mind, however small it may be. -Plato, The Republic, ca. 390 B.C. 3185. A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy. -Guy Fawkes, to James I, Nov 5, 1605 3186. The surest way to prevent seditions is to take away the matter of them. For if there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire. -Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Seditions and Troubles", Essays, 1625 3187. When the people are in movement, it's not possible to see how calm will be restored; when they're quiet, you can't see how the calm will be destroyed. [Quand le peuple est en mouvement, on ne comprend pas par où le calme peut y entrer; et quand il est paisible, on ne voit pas par où le calme peut en sortir.] -Jean de La Bruyère, "Du souverain ou de la république", Les Caractères, 1688 3188. If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system. -Samuel Johnson, quoted by James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, Jul 6, 1763 3189. The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong but better so than not be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere. -Thomas Jefferson, letter to Abigail Adams, Feb 22, 1787 3190. I hold it, that a little rebellion now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. It is a medicine for the sound health of government. -Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, Jan 30, 1787 3191. Insurrection is the most sacred of duties. -Marie Joseph, Marquis de Lafayette, speech to the National Assembly, Feb 20, 1790 3192. Every successful revolt is termed a revolution, and every unsuccessful one a rebellion. -Joseph Priestly, letter to Edmund Burke, 1791 192 STATES Political Quotations Political Quotations REPUBLICAN PARTY 100d is Religion. -William Blake, 3160. I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant. -John $ inimical to liberty. All separated F. Kennedy, Time, Jul 25, 1960 Clay, speech in the House of 3161. Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. -John F. Kennedy, letter to the National Conference of Christians and Jews, Oct 10, 1960 iman reason which will not at the Quincy Adams, letter to Richard 3162. The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. -Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963 of gravity in a realm, to which all 3163. If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in. muel Taylor Coleridge, On the -Ronald Reagan, Washingtonian, Jul, 1976 3164. I think the government ought to stay out of the prayer business. -Jimmy Carter, The ing of men's rights and women's New York Times, Apr 8, 1979 my solemn conviction that, until 3165. The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion. -John ctice, the church can do nothing Paul Stevens, majority opinion, Wallace V. Jaffree, Jun 4, 1985 ina Grimké, Letters to Catherine REPUBLICAN PARTY art of a heartless world, just as it 3166. I knew that however bad the Republican party was, the Democratic party was much [Die Religion ist der Seufzer der worse. The elements of which the Republican party was composed gave better ground for the der Geist geistloser Zustände ist. ultimate hope of the success of the colored man's cause than those of the Democratic party. tion to the Critique of Hegel's -Frederick Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, 1881 3167. I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes the priest consecrates the heart- and the ark of his safety. -Frederick Douglass, letter to men of Petersburg, Virginia, Aug 15, nifesto, 1848 1888 nake the discovery that we were 3168. Th' raypublican party broke ye, but now that ye're down we'll not turn a cold shoulder liam Ewart Gladstone, letter to to ye. come in an' we'll keep ye - broke. -Finley Peter Dunne, "Mr. Dooley Discusses", Mr. Dooley's Opinion, 1900 ceed from them. -Ralph Waldo 3169. The trouble with the Republican Party is that it has not had a new idea in 30 years. I am not speaking as a politician; I am speaking as an historian. -Woodrow Wilson, speech in Indianapolis, Indiana, Jan 8, 1915 ipon the heads of thieves, called 4 3170. Indeed there are some Republicans I would trust with anything-anything, that is, except public office. -Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., campaign speech in Springfield, Illinois, Aug 14, 1952 his time, Christ keeps aloof from ssia, 1913 3171. It (the Republican Party) is an ancient political vehicle, held together by soft soap and hunger and with front-seat drivers and back-seat drivers contradicting each other in a bedlam only the Conservative Party at of voices, shouting "go right" and "go left" at the same time. -Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., The New ondon, 1917 York Times, Nov 15, 1952 1 and State are both demanding 3172. I have been tempted to make a proposal to our Republican friends: that if they stop telling ry, I would say that that great lies about us, we would stop telling the truth about them. -Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., quoted, peech to the Federal Council of Human Behavior, May, 1978 3173. The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who has seen a circus alin, reported conversation with parade knows, proceeds best by grasping the tail of his predecessor. -Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., "The Art of Politics", The Stevenson Wit, 1966 self with the whole of mankind, 3174. Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party. -Walter Lippmann, recalled on his death, Dec 14, 1974 idas K. Gandhi, Non-Violence 3175. I think the Republican Party is only going to be an effective party if it reflects the best interests of the American people, and traditionally that is in the center. That is where our country will cease to be free for religion. has always been. That is where the Republican Party has won. -Nelson A. Rockefeller, Time, or 7, 1952 Nov 17, 1975 191 THE MORROW BOOK OF QUOTATIONS IN AMERICAN HISTORY Joseph R. Conlin WILLIAM MORROW AND COMPANY, INC. New York REAGAN 239 Ronald Reagan (1911- ): Governor of California and fortieth president Once you've seen one redwood tree, you've seen them all. (Alleged remark at a press conference, 1966, later denied) I am very proud to be called a pig. It stands for pride, integrity, and guts. (At a press conference, 1970) This would be a good time for a botulism epidemic. scientist (Remark when kidnappers of Patricia Hearst demanded free canned aign by a worker expands in goods be distributed to the poor, May 1974) at he will derive from his We are told that détente is our best hope for a lasting peace. mer 1965) Hope it may offer, but only so long as we have no illusions about it. When the stakes are war and peace, we can bargain suc- or and civil rights leader cessfully only if we are strong militarily and only if we are willing to ovement such as the March defend ourselves if necessary. We must also have a sense of unity and a national purpose in our foreign policy. ith by Negroes in Negroes. th Negroes depending on (Speech at Phillips Exeter Academy, 10 February 1974) ak down the slave psychol- Double-no triple-our troubles and we'd still be better off which comes and is nour- than any other people on earth. people for direction and It is time that we recognized that ours was, in truth, a noble xed organizations that are cause. ro. (On the Vietnam War, speech in Boston, August 1980) mittee, September 1942) We are threatened with an economic calamity of tremendous esswoman from proportions, and the old business-as-usual treatment can't save us. (Speech in Washington, 5 January 1981) fuse to send anyone else. I hope you're all Republicans. SS against the declaration of war (Remark to physicians when he was wounded in an assassination at- tempt by the son of an oil man, 1981) They came home without a victory not because they had been list and politician defeated but because they had been denied permission to win. (On Vietnam speech in Washington, 24 February 1981) es' Home Journal, October 1929) I could see where you could have the exchange of tactical [nuclear] weapons against troops in the field without it bringing ei- ther of the major powers to pushing the button. (Interview, 16 October 1981) HOAR / HOFFMAN 145 it waste George Frisbie Hoar (1826-1904): Senator from dred miles Massachusetts e to have my The men who do the work of piety and charity in our churches ? I don't the men who own and till their own farms the men who went to war and saved the nation's honor by the natural law of his execution, 18 of their being find their place in the Republican Party. While the old slave owner and slave driver, the saloon keeper, the ballot box stuffer the criminal class of the great cities, the men who cannot r read or write, by the natural law of their being find their congenial ers that violate the place in the Democratic Party. wrong with taking (Speech in Boston, 1888) Harold Hobson (1904- ): British critic The United States, I believe, are under the impression that they are twenty years in advance of this country; whilst, as a matter of and why. actual verifiable fact, of course, they are just about six hours behind it. (The Devil in Woodford Wells, 1948) present great cri- James "Jimmy" Hoffa (1913-?): Labor leader nciple of interna- I do unto others what they do unto me, only worse. ver, and proclaims (Interview with reporters, 1957) ed by the govern- Eric Hoffer (1902- ): Popular philosopher To the intellectual, America's unforgivable sin is that it has revo- lutions without revolutionaries, and achieves the momentous in a matter-of-fact way. and suffer what is (Syndicated newspaper column, 9 February 1968) 145) Eisenhower sat on his ass and we were a thousand times better off. (Interview in People, 16 January 1978) or entrusted me with the next five hun- Abbott "Abbie" Hoffman (1936- ): Leader of "the Yippies" cisive, not only for They nominate a president and he eats the people. We nominate pe and indeed the a president and the people eat him. cale has been im- (On the nomination of a pig as Youth International Party presidential candidate, Chicago, August 1968) ember 1941) CONKLING / CONNOLLY 73 because of this they so carry Roscoe Conkling (1829-1888): Senator from New York and corporation lawyer This angry man, dizzy with the elevation to which assassination has raised him, frenzied with power and ambition, does not seem to uman know that not he but the men who made the Constitution placed it in the people's hands. They placed Andrew Johnson in the people's hands also; and when those hands shall drop their votes into the Sam, ballot box, Andrew Johnson and his policy of arrogance and usurpa- e tion will be snapped like a willow wand. (Speech in New York, August 1866) ver, We are told the Republican party is a machine. Yes. A govern- 's over, over there. ment is a machine; a church is a machine; an army is a machine; an order of Masons is a machine; the common-school system of the State of New York is a machine; a political party is a machine. (Speech in New York, September 1876) ndly impressed with the fact d Stripes, and that has had a I do not know how to belong to a party a little. e written. If it had not been (Attributed) ce, I might have fallen into omantic drama, or question- He will hew to the line of right, let the chips fall where they 1 my heart, and it has done may. (Of President Grant, June 1880) 940) How can I speak into a grave? How can I battle with a shroud? 7 the flag. Silence is a duty and a doom. (On hearing of the death by assassination of his political rival, President James A. Garfield, September 1881) r, editor I have but one annoyance with the administration of President lectual efforts, choose for its Arthur, and that is, that, in contrast with it, the Administration of al from it, we consider it a Hayes becomes respectable, if not heroic. (Attributed, 1883) Cyril Connolly (1903-1975): Irish author I came to America tourist Third with a cheque for ten pounds President Nixon, later and I leave plus five hundred, a wife, a mandarin coat, a set of diamond studs, a state room and bath, and a decent box for the ir minds and hearts will fol- ferret. That's what everybody comes to America to do and I don't think I've managed badly for a beginner. (Letter to Noel Blakiston, 2 April 1930) 24 ADELMAN / ALCOTT Morris A. Adelman (1917- ): Economist Those fellows are not considerate and they're not malicious. They're just trying to do the best for themselves, squeezing the goose without killing it. (On OPEC's increase in the price of petroleum, December 1978) Spiro T. Agnew (1918- ): Vice-president under Nixon To some extent, if you've seen one city slum you've seen them all. (Speech in Detroit, 18 October 1968) Now anybody who knows me, or has taken the trouble to read what I have to say, knows that I respect the right of dissent. (Speech in Washington, 3 December 1969) The day when the network commentators and even gentlemen of the New York Times enjoyed a form of diplomatic immunity from comment and criticism of what they said-that day is past. I do not seek to intimidate the press, the networks or anyone else from speaking out. But the time for blind acceptance of their opinions is past. And the time for naive belief in their neutrality is gone. (Speech in Montgomery, 29 November 1969) It is not an easy thing to wake up in the morning to learn that some prominent man or institution has implied that you are a bigot, Sa a racist, or a fool. (Ibid.) fro fan We seem to be approaching the age of the gross. (Speech in New Orleans, 19 October 1969) The Republican Party has a place for every American who be- me lieves that flag waving is better than flag burning. the (Ibid.) Bronson Alcott (1799-1888): Transcendentalist philosopher ativ I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and to C brought up in the country. Hav (Attributed) Ref. N6081 C27 WH The Harper Book of AMERICAN QUOTATIONS Gorton Carruth and Eugene Ehrlich A Hudson Group Book 1817 Harper & Row, Publishers, New York Cambridge, Philadelphia, San Francisco London, Mexico City, São Paulo, Singapore, Sydney 179 66. DEMOCRACY LANGSTON HUGHES, "The Black Man Speaks," THOMAS JEFFERSON, in his first inaugural address, in Jim Crow's Last Stand, 1943. March 4, 1801. 37 The death of democracy is not likely to be an 44 Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinc- with the government of himself. Can he, then, be tion from apathy, indifference, and undernourish- trusted with the government of others? Or have we ment. found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? ROBERT M. HUTCHINS, Great Books, 1954. Let history answer this question. Ibid. 38 The animosities of sovereigns are temporary and may be allayed; but those which seize the whole 45 A republican government is slow to move, yet body of a people, and of a people, too, who dictate when once in motion, its momentum becomes irre- their own measures, produce calamities of long sistible. duration. THOMAS JEFFERSON, in a letter to Francis C. THOMAS JEFFERSON, in a letter to Charles Gray, March 4, 1815. William Frederick Dumas, May 6, 1786. 46 I am not among those who fear the people. 39 If any of our countrymen wish for a king, give They, and not the rich, are our dependence for them Aesop's fable of the frogs who asked a king; continued freedom. if this does not cure them, send them to Europe. THOMAS JEFFERSON, in a letter to Samuel They will go back good republicans. Kercheval, July 12, 1816. THOMAS JEFFERSON, in a letter to Dr. David Ramsay, August 4, 1787. 47 I know no safe depository of the ultimate pow- ers of society but the people themselves; and if we 40 [The people] are the only sure reliance for the think them not enlightened enough to exercise their preservation of our liberty. control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is THOMAS JEFFERSON, in a letter to James not to take it from them, but to inform their discre- Madison, December 20, 1787. tion by education. 41 Every government degenerates when trusted to THOMAS JEFFERSON, in a letter to William C. Jarvis, September 28, 1820. the rulers of the people alone. The people them- selves therefore are its only safe depositories. 48 The constitutions of most of our States assert THOMAS JEFFERSON, in a letter to Abbé Arnoud, that all power is inherent in the people. July 19, 1789. THOMAS JEFFERSON, in a letter to John Cartwright, June 5, 1824. 42 The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the 49 All eyes are opened or opening to the rights of rights of mankind. man. The general spread of the light of science has THOMAS JEFFERSON, in a letter to William already laid open to every view the palpable truth, Hunter, March 11, 1790. that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted 43 Some honest men fear that a republican govern- and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the ment can not be strong, that this government is not grace of God. strong enough; but would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a gov- THOMAS JEFFERSON, in a letter to Roger C. Weightman, June 24, 1826. ernment which has so far kept us free and firm, on the theoretic and visionary fear that this govern- 50 Humble as I am, plebeian as I may be deemed, ment, the world's best hope, may by possibility permit me in the presence of this brilliant assem- want energy to preserve itself? blage to enunciate the truth that courts and cabi- 214. THE SOUTH 526 3 No hardier republicanism was generated in New O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! England than in the slave states of the South, which Good and evil! O all dear to me! produced so many great statesmen of America. WALT WHITMAN, "O Magnet-South," 1860. WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE, "Kin Beyond the Sea," published in the North American Review, September, 1878. 4 Southerners can never resist a losing cause. 215. SOUTH CAROLINA MARGARET MITCHELL, Gone with the Wind, 1936. 1 Animis opibusque parati (Prepared in mind 5 In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; and resources). they date from it. Dum spiro spero (While I breathe, I hope). MARK TWAIN, Life on the Mississippi, 1883. State mottoes. 6 O magnet-South! O glistening, perfumed 2 South Carolinians are among the rare folk in the South! my South! South who have no secret envy of Virginians. Robert E. Lee: farewell to his army, April 10, 1865 The surrender of General Robert E. Lee to Gen- eral Ulysses S. Grant on the day before had been marked by generosity. Grant allowed all soldiers to keep their horses and the officers to keep their side- arms as well. The Civil War was over. After four years of arduous service, marked by them to their countrymen. unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the Army By the terms of the agreement, officers and of Northern Virginia has been compelled to men can return to their homes and remain there yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. until exchanged. You will take with you the I need not tell the survivors of so many hard- satisfaction that proceeds from the consciousness fought battles, who have remained steadfast to of duty faithfully performed; and I earnestly the last, that I have consented to this result pray that a merciful God will extend to you His from no distrust of them; but, feeling that blessing and protection. valor and devotion could accomplish nothing With an increasing admiration of your con- that could compensate for the loss that would stancy and devotion to your country, and a grate- have attended the continuation of the contest, ful rememberance of your kind and generous I have determined to avoid the useless sacrifice consideration of myself, I bid you an affectionate of those whose past services have endeared farewell. 348 349 137. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Who, in the fear of God, didst bear pleased to know that, in your judgment, the little The sword of power, a nation's trust! I did say was not entirely a failure." Everett was LN the featured speaker at Gettysburg, but Lincoln's WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, "Abraham Lincoln," address is the one remembered.) AR; April, 1865. ; 13 Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified 7 O Uncommon Commoner! may your name his faith. Forever lead like a living flame! Unschooled scholar! how did you learn BENJAMIN HARRISON, in an address on Lincoln The wisdom a lifetime may not earn? Day, Chicago, 1898. S pursued EDMUND VANCE COOKE, "The Uncommon 14 The President last night had a dream. He was dian, and Commoner." in a party of plain people and as it became known be called 8 In Washington the most striking thing is the who he was they began to comment on his appear- absence of personal loyalty to the President. It does ance. One of them said, "He is a common-looking not exist. He has no admirers, no enthusiastic sup- man." The President replied, "Common-looking porters, none to bet on his head. If a Republican people are the best in the world: that is the reason S but sel- convention were to be held tomorrow, he would the Lord makes so many of them." read is of not get the vote of a state. JOHN HAY, diary entry, December 23, 1863. xes in the RICHARD HENRY DANA, JR., in a letter to 15 It is absurd to call him a modest man. No great Charles Francis Adams, March, 1863. man was ever modest. I consider Lincoln repub- Salmon P. 9 Lincoln is one of those peculiar men who per- licanism incarnate-with all its faults and all its form with admirable skill everything which they virtues. eet, undertake. JOHN HAY, on Abraham Lincoln, quoted in hickory STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS, in the first William H. Herndon, Lincoln: The True Story of Lincoln-Douglas debate, Ottawa, Illinois, a Great Life, 1889. August 21, 1858. 16 He ought to hang somebody, and get up a name 10 I am sure if this man had ruled in a period of for will or decision-for character. Let him hang y, tall less facility of printing, he would have become some child or woman, if he has not courage to hang mythological in a very few years, like Aesop or a man. a Pilpay, or one of the Seven Wise Masters, by his fables and proverbs. WILLIAM H. HERNDON, junior partner in Lincoln's law firm, in a letter to Lyman n's Body, RALPH WALDO EMERSON, "Abraham Lincoln," Trumbull, November 20, 1861. 1865, published in Miscellanies, 1884. 17 Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone-no intent; 11 His heart was as great as the world, but there sident! ancestors, no fellows, no successors. was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. ROBERT G. INGERSOLL, "Abraham Lincoln," 1! RALPH WALDO EMERSON, "Greatness," Letters 1894. and Social Aims, 1876. Themes," 18 Strange mingling of mirth and tears, of the 65. 12 I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I tragic and grotesque, of cap and crown, of Socrates came as near to the central idea of the occasion in his coarse and Rabelais, of Aesop and Marcus Aurelius- two hours as you did in two minutes. es and his Lincoln, the gentlest memory of the world. EDWARD EVERETT, in a note to Abraham Lincoln lds. the day after Lincoln delivered his famous address Ibid. at Gettysburg, Pa., November 20, 1863. (Lincoln 19 Hundreds of people are now engaged in smooth- responded to Everett's note, "In our respective parts yesterday, you could not have been excused ing out the lines on Lincoln's face-forcing all to make a short address, nor I a long one. I am features to the common mold-so that he may be 249. WEALTH 590 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Poor Richard's Almanack, ALEXANDER HAMILTON, on the rich, in a speech 1740. at the New York Ratifying Convention, Poughkeepsie, June 21, 1788. 24 He who multiplies Riches multiplies Cares. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Poor Richard's Almanack, 33 It is almost as difficult to reconcile the principles 1744. of republican society with the existence of bil- lionaires as of dukes. 25 If your Riches are yours, why don't you take Attributed to Thomas Wentworth Higginson. them with you to t'other World? BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Poor Richard's Almanack, 34 It cannot be repeated too often that the safety 1751. of great wealth with us lies in obedience to the new version of the Old World axiom-Richesse oblige. 26 Many a Man would have been worse, if his Estate had been better. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR., A Mortal Antipathy, 1855. Ibid. 35 There is that glorious Epicurean paradox, ut- 27 Wealth is not without its advantages and the tered by my friend, the Historian, in one of his case to the contrary, although it has often been flashing moments:-Give us the luxuries of life, made, has never proved widely persuasive. and we will dispense with its necessaries." JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH, The Affluent OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR., quoting John Society, 1958. Lothrop Motley, in The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858. 28 Wealth can be accumulated but to a slight de- gree, and communities really live, as the vast 36 Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby majority of individuals live, from hand to mouth. men are made captive, and burdened with respon- Wealth will not bear much accumulation; except in sibilities from which only Death can file their fet- a few unimportant forms it will not keep. ters. HENRY GEORGE, Progress and Poverty, 1879. ELBERT HUBBARD, The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams, 1923. 29 Nature laughs at a miser. He is like the squirrel who buries his nuts and refrains from digging them 37 Few rich men own their own property. The up again. property owns them. Ibid. ROBERT G. INGERSOLL, in a speech in New York City, October 29, 1896. 30 Great wealth always supports the party in power, no matter how corrupt it may be. It never 38 The opposition between the men who have and exerts itself for reform, for it instinctively fears the men who are is immemorial. change. WILLIAM JAMES, The Varieties of Religious HENRY GEORGE, Social Problems, 1884. Experience, 1902. 31 The ideal social state is not that in which each 39 Misplaced emphasis occurs when you think gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each that everything is going well because your car gets in proportion to his contribution to the general drives so smoothly, and your new suit fits you so stock. well, and those high-priced shoes you bought make Ibid. your feet feel so good; and you begin to believe that these things, these many luxuries all around, are the 32 Their vices are probably more favorable to the really important matters of your life. prosperity of the state, than those of the indigent; MARTIN LUTHER KING, SR., Daddy King, 1980. and partake less of moral depravity. 442 187. POLITICS 443 1 a speech at a Thirteen ment-unless and until a particular policy appears that's what you're going to do anyway! No. What City, December 13, a failure. they want you to do is all the things that are wrong. NICHOLAS D. KATZENBACH, in the New York Ibid. ! It is a mere fly-speck Times Book Review, February 18, 1973. h the rooted and per- 80 What this country needs is more unemployed at exist in the Euro- 72 Politics is property. politicians. permanent force of MURRAY KEMPTON, quoted by Norman Mailer in EDWARD LANGLEY, quoted by Charles McCabe V spirit. Miami and the Siege of Chicago, 1968. in the San Francisco Chronicle, October 24, 1980. o the Dreyfus affair, 73 The secret of the Kennedy successes in politics [ustin Kaplan, was not money but meticulous planning and orga- 81 Mr. Chairman, this work is exclusively the by, 1974. nization, tremendous effort, and the enthusiasm work of politicians; a set of men who have interests longing eye on of- and devotion of family and friends. aside from the interests of the people, and who, to conduct. ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY, Times to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least Remember, 1974. one long step removed from honest men. I say this ter to Tench Coxe, with the greater freedom, because, being a politi- 74 In politics it is difficult sometimes to decide cian myself, none can regard it as personal. whether the politicians are humorless hypocrites or hat I would advise ABRAHAM LINCOLN, speaking in the Illinois h them. hypocritical humorists. legislature against a proposed investigation of the FRANK RICHARDSON KENT, in the Baltimore management of the state bank, January 11, 1837. er to Martha Sun, July 24, 1932. 11, 1800. 82 Republicans are for both the man and the 75 The brains trust. dollar; but in cases of conflict, the man before the ip the torches of JAMES M. KIERAN, characterizing the group of dollar. rror. Columbia University professors who advised ABRAHAM LINCOLN, in a letter to H.L. Pierce et to James Ogilvie, Franklin D. Roosevelt on his campaign speeches, al., April 6, 1859. in a conversation with Roosevelt, 1932. (The phrase caught on and soon became "brain trust.") 83 What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the naturally divided 76 The public life of every political figure is a old and tried, against the new and untried? and distrust the S from them into continual struggle to rescue an element of choice ABRAHAM LINCOLN, in a speech at Cooper Those who iden- from the pressure of circumstance. Union, New York City, February 27, 1860. ve confidence in HENRY KISSINGER, White House Years, 1979. 84 I do not allow myself to suppose that either the the most honest 77 The outsider thinks in terms of absolutes; for convention or the League have concluded to decide se depository of that I am either the greatest or the best man in him right and wrong are defined in their concep- ntry these two tion. The political leader does not have this luxury. America, but rather they have concluded that it is e they are free not best to swap horses while crossing the river, and He rarely can reach his goal except in stages; any I declare them- have further concluded that I am not so poor a partial step is inherently morally imperfect and yet morality cannot be approximated without it. horse that they might not make a botch of it in trying to swap. Henry Lee, Ibid. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, speaking to a delegation of 78 I've never belonged to any political party for the National Union League, on his renomination roperly, you'd more than fifteen minutes. as President, June 9, 1864. FIORELLO H. LAGUARDIA, quoted in John 85 I have not been able to convince myself that one les L. Sanders Gunther, Inside U.S.A., 1947. policy, one party, one class, or one set of tactics, is 79 Why do good public servants break with politi- as fertile as human need. apporting the cal parties? It's so simple. The political people WALTER LIPPMANN, Drift and Mastery, e in disagree- never ask you to do anything that's right-and 1914. 187. POLITICS 444 86 The effort to calculate exactly what the voters 94 There is always some basic principle that will want at each particular moment leaves out of ac- ultimately get the Republican party together. If my count the fact that when they are troubled the thing observations are worth anything, that basic princi- the voters most want is to be told what to want. ple is the cohesive power of public plunder. WALTER LIPPMANN, "The Bogey of Public A.J. MCLAURIN, in a speech in the U.S. Senate, Opinion," Vanity Fair magazine, December, May, 1906. 1931. 95 Politics quarantines one from history; most of 87 In a political fight, when you've got nothing in the people who nourish themselves in the political favor of your side, start a row in the opposition life are in the game not to make history but to be camp. diverted from the history which is being made. HUEY P. LONG, quoted in T. Harry Williams, NORMAN MAILER, Some Honorable Men: Huey Long, 1969. Political Conventions, 1960-1972, 1976. 88 I understand the rules of war in politics. No one 96 A political convention is after all not a meeting has practiced them more. of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a HUEY P. LONG, speaking to reporters, July, 1933, carnival, a pig-rooting, horse-snorting, band-play- quoted in T. Harry Williams, Huey Long, 1969. ing, voice-screaming medieval get-together of 89 The man who pulls the plow gets the plunder greed, practical lust, compromised idealism, career- in politics. advancement, meeting, feud, vendetta, concilia- tion, of rabble-rousers, fist fights (as it used to be), HUEY P. LONG, in a speech in the U.S. Senate, embraces, drunks (again as it used to be) and collec- January 30, 1934. tive rivers of animal sweat. 90 Ez to my princerples, I glory Ibid. In hevin' nothin' o' the sort; I aint a Whig, I aint a Tory, 97 Socialism, indeed, is simply the degenerate capi- I'm jest a canderdate, in short. talism of bankrupt capitalists. Its one genuine ob- JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, The Biglow Papers, ject is to get more money for its professors; all its First Series, 1848. other grandiloquent objects are afterthoughts, and most of them are bogus. 91 At present, trust a man with making constitu- H.L. MENCKEN, Prejudices, Third Series, 1922. tions on less proof of competence than we should demand before we gave him our shoe to patch. 98 The believing mind reaches its perihelion in the JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, "On a Certain so-called Liberals. They believe in each and every Condescension in Foreigners," published in the quack who sets up his booth on the fair-grounds, Atlantic Monthly, January, 1869. including the Communists. The Communists have 92 It is the mark of the successful politician that he some talents too, but they always fall short of be- faces the inevitable, and then takes credit for it. lieving in the Liberals. Jumping on the bandwagon can be made to look H.L. MENCKEN, "Sententiae," in The Vintage like leadership if the move is made dexterously Mencken, 1955. enough. 99 A good [politician] is quite as unthinkable as an CHARLES MCCABE, quoted in Edmund G. honest burglar. Brown, Reagan: The Political Chameleon, 1976. H.L. MENCKEN, quoted in Newsweek magazine, 93 Our differences are policies, our agreements September 12, 1955. principles. 100 Any party which takes credit for the rain must WILLIAM MCKINLEY, in a speech in Des not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the Moines, Iowa, 1901. drought. 258 259 101. GOVERNMENT ever so ill de- pursuit of happiness. A man may choose to sit and 119 The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is wouldn't work fish instead of working-that's his pursuit of happi- a government strong enough to protect the interests ness. He does not have the right to force his neigh- of the people, and a people strong enough and well bors to support him in his pursuit because that enough informed to maintain its sovereign control interferes with their pursuit of happiness. over its government. enure of being RONALD REAGAN, Sincerely, Ronald Reagan, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, in a radio address, 1976. April 14, 1938. in Boston, 114 Government exists to protect us from each 120 The government is us; we are the government, other. We can't afford the government it would you and I. rnment never take to protect us from ourselves. rld that thinks THEODORE ROOSEVELT, in a speech in Asheville, RONALD REAGAN, quoted in Laurence I. Barrett, North Carolina, September 9, 1902. Gambling with History-Reagan in the White n Boston, House, 1983. 121 I do not believe in government ownership of 115 The best system is to have one party govern anything which can with propriety be left in private the rights of and the other party watch, and on general princi- hands, and in particular I should most strenuously ed no protec- ples I think it would be best for us to govern and object to government ownership of railroads. ew enemies. the Democrats watch. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, in a speech in Raleigh, Boston, THOMAS BRACKETT REED, in a debate in the North Carolina, October 19, 1905. House of Representatives, April 22, 1880. 122 There is something to be said for government government 116 Whereas a tightly centralized government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders iman frame tends, by its disproportionate weight and power, to to the nation in peace and war for generations; even finally shall stifle diversity and creativity in both the public and a democrat like myself must admit this. But there melancholy private sectors, a federal system provides room for is absolutely nothing to be said for government by both infinite variety and creativity in all sectors of a plutocracy, for government by men very power- national life. This is equally true for political or- ton ful in certain lines and gifted with the "money ganizations, philanthropic associations, social insti- touch," but with ideals which in their essence are tutions, or economic enterprises. merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers. free, must NELSON A. ROCKEFELLER, The Future of on interest THEODORE ROOSEVELT, in a letter to Edward Federalism, 1962. Grey, November 15, 1913. ed. No tic to the 117 Grand ideas of government-lofty abstract 123 Everything is un-American that tends either to e whom I principles, even the wisest constitutions and laws— government by a plutocracy, or government by a npound it depend for their very life and meaning on the will- mob. To divide along the lines of section or caste ingness of citizens and leaders to apply them and to or creed is un-American. All privilege based on January, improve them. wealth, and all enmity to honest men merely be- Ibid. cause they are wealthy, are un-American-both of being as- 118 If we do not halt this steady process of building them equally so. Americanism means the virtues of WS and a commissions and regulatory bodies and special leg- courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardi- ing this, islation like huge inverted pyramids over every one hood-the virtues that made America. The things ng with of the simple constitutional provisions, we shall that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any- soon be spending many billions of dollars more. price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty- first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick e? 1965. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, in a radio address, theory of life. March 2, 1930. (Roosevelt had just noted ich are that the annual federal budget had reached THEODORE ROOSEVELT, in a letter to S. Stanwood and the $3,500,000,000.) Menken, January 10, 1917. 186. POETRY 438 31 The works of the great poets have never yet Political saying, describing Republicans who been read by mankind, for only great poets can read crossed party lines and supported Grover them. They have only been read as the multitude Cleveland, the Democratic candidate, in the presidential election of 1884. have read the stars, at most astrologically, not as- tronomically. 3 The trend of Democracy is toward socialism, HENRY DAVID THOREAU, "Reading," Walden, while the Republican party stands for a wise and 1854. regulated individualism. Socialism would destroy wealth; Republicanism would prevent its abuse. 32 That may be very good Dutch Flat poetry, but Socialism would give to each an equal right to take; it won't do in the metropolis. It is too smooth and Republicanism would give to each an equal right to blubbery; it reads like buttermilk gurgling from a earn. Socialism would offer an equality of posses- jug. sion which would soon leave no one anything to MARK TWAIN, "Answers to Correspondents," possess; Republicanism would give equality of op- Sketches New and Old, 1875. portunity. 33 I think there is no such thing as a long poem. If Plank of the Republican Party national platform, 1908. it is long it isn't a poem; it is something else. A book like John Brown's Body, for instance, is not a 4 Liberals! They're not leaders! If they were real poem-it is a series of poems tied together with leaders they'd understand that their style of poli- cord. Poetry is intensity, and nothing is intense for ticking and self-aggrandizement is what's destroy- long. ing the capacity of any of us to get anywhere. E.B. WHITE, "Poetry," One Man's Meat, 1944. BELLA ABZUG, quoted in Mel Ziegler, Bella! 1972. 34 I love the old melodious lays Which softly melt the ages through, 5 The establishment is made up of little men, very The songs of Spenser's golden days, frightened. Arcadian Sidney's silver phrase, Ibid. Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest morning dew. 6 Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, in the proem to Poems, 1849. HENRY ADAMS, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907. 7 Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. 187. POLITICS Ibid. See also CONGRESS; CONSTITUTION; DEMOCRACY; DIPLOMACY; ELECTIONS; 8 I agree with you that in politics the middle way GOVERNMENT is none at all. JOHN ADAMS, in a letter to Horatio Gates, March 23, 1776. 1 Will it play in Peoria? 9 No sooner has one Party discovered or invented Traditional rhetorical question of American an Amelioration of the Condition of Man or the politics (implying that a political action, in order order of Society, than the opposite Party belies it, to work, must have the support of the citizens of misconstrues it, misrepresents it, ridicules it, insults the so-called average American town). it, and persecutes it. 2 A mugwump is a fellow with his mug on one side JOHN ADAMS, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson, of the fence and his wump on the other. July 9, 1813. 438 439 187. POLITICS epublicans who 10 Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as SAMUEL D. BURCHARD, to James G. Blaine, rted Grover a contest of principles. The conduct of public af- October 29, 1884. andidate, in the fairs for private advantage. 18 The Democratic party is like a man riding back- AMBROSE BIERCE, The Devil's Dictionary, 1906. ward in a carriage. It never sees a thing until it has toward socialism, gone by. nds for a wise and 11 Politician, n. An eel in the fundamental mud sm would destroy upon which the superstructure of organized society Attributed to Benjamin F. Butler, .1870. prevent its abuse. is reared. When he wriggles he mistakes the agita- 19 [Ronald] Reagan is different from me in almost equal right to take; tion of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. As every basic element of commitment and experience h an equal right to compared with the statesman, he suffers the disad- and promise to the American people, and the Re- equality of posses- vantage of being alive. publican party now is sharply different from what ) one anything to Ibid. the Democratic party is. And I might add paren- ve equality of op- thetically that the Republican party is sharply dif- 12 Stalwart Republicans. ferent under Reagan from what it was under Ger- national platform, JAMES G. BLAINE, describing a faction within the ald Ford and Presidents all the way back to Republican Party known for political patronage Eisenhower. and domination of the civil service, 1877. If they were real JIMMY CARTER, speaking in Independence, 13 A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the eir style of poli- Missouri, September 2, 1980. S what's destroy- fight starts. 20 We shall not note our increase of virtue too et anywhere. HEYWOOD BROUN, quoted in Robert E. Drennan, much by seeing more crooks in Sing Sing, as by The Algonquin Wits, 1968. Liegler, Bella! seeing fewer of them in drawing rooms. 14 It is into the hands of the parties that the work- JOHN JAY CHAPMAN, in the periodical The ing of the government has fallen. Their ingenuity, little men, very Political Nursery, published between 1897-1901. stimulated by incessant rivalry, has turned many provisions of the Constitution to unforeseen uses, 21 A politician thinks of the next election; a states- and given to the legal institutions of the country no man thinks of the next generation. the beginning small part of their present color. Attributed to James Freeman Clarke. JAMES BRYCE, The American Commonwealth, 22 The other side can have a monopoly of all the 1888. f Henry Adams, dirt in this campaign. 15 The American parties now continue to exist, GROVER CLEVELAND, comment made while because they have existed. The mill has been con- struggle not of destroying documents gathered to smear James G. structed, and its machinery goes on turning, even Blaine, during the 1884 Presidential campaign, when there is no grist to grind. quoted in Allan Nevins, Grover Cleveland, 1932. Ibid. 23 Party honesty is party expediency. e middle way 16 Blindfold me, spin me about like a top, and I GROVER CLEVELAND, quoted in the New York will walk up to the single liberal in the room with- Commercial Advertiser, September 19, 1889. o Gates, March out zig or zag and find him even if he is hiding 24 Contact with the affairs of state is one of the behind the flowerpot. most corrupting of the influences to which men are d or invented WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR., "Notes Toward an exposed. F Man or the Empirical Definition of Conservatism," October, arty belies it, 1963. JAMES FENIMORE COOPER, The American Democrat, 1838. iles it, insults 17 We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party 25 The demagogue is usually sly, a detractor of Jefferson, whose antecedents have been Rum, Romanism, and others, a professor of humility and disinterested- Rebellion. ness, a great stickler for equality as respects all N6081 077682 63 WH 4 THE HOME BOOK 11 OF AMERICAN QUOTATIONS SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY BRUCE BOHLE 11 DODD, MEAD & COMPANY NEW YORK 1967 300 POLITICS POLITICS ing contributed to a higher level of political 9 dialogue in the United States. The vice of our leading parties in this coun- ADLAI E. STEVENSON, on a London televi- try is that they do not plant themselves on sion program in July, 1959, in reply to a the deep and necessary grounds to which query about the quality he would em- they are respectively entitled, but lash them- phasize if he were able to write his own selves to fury in the carrying of some local epitaph. (Contemporary Forum, ed. by and momentary measure, nowise useful to ERNEST J. WRAGE AND BARNET BASKER- the commonwealth. Of the two great parties VILLE, p. 354) which at this hour almost share the nation 1 between them, I should say that one has the The demagogue is the curse of the modern best cause, and the other contains the best world; and of all the demagogues, the worst men. are those financed by well-meaning wealthy EMERSON, Essays, Second Series: Politics. men who sincerely believe that their wealth 10 is likely to be safer if they can hire men with The Democratic party is the party of the political "it" to change the signposts and lure Poor marshalled against the Rich. But the people back into slavery of the most de- they are always officered by a few self-seek- graded kind. ing deserters from the Rich or Whig party. HENRY A. WALLACE, Address to Free EMERSON, Journals, 1857. 11 World Association, New York City, 8 All free governments are party govern- May, 1942. ments. 2 Tin-horn politicians. JAMES A. GARFIELD, Remarks on the death WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE, Editorial, Empo- of Oliver H. P. Morton, U.S. House of ria (Kan.) Gazette, 25 Oct., 1901. Representatives, 18 Jan., 1878. 12 You cannot in this game of politics fight IV-Parties your own party. It just doesn't work. 3 BARRY M. GOLDWATER, News Conference, This party comes from the grass roots. It has Scottsdale, Ariz., 4 Nov., 1964, at which grown from the soil of the people's hard ne- he conceded defeat in the presidential cessities. contest. He was obviously unhappy ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE, Address at Bull about lukewarm support given by some Moose Convention in Chicago, 5 Aug., Republicans during the campaign. 1912. 13 4 He serves his party best who serves the Stalwart Republicans. country best. JAMES G. BLAINE, in 1877, in describing RUTHERFORD B. HAYES, Inaugural Ad- the Congressional group who fought to dress, 5 Mar., 1877. sustain the privileges of the Republicans 14 in the South. Yes, I am a Democrat still-very still. 5 DAVID B. HILL, reaffirming his party affili- Any well-established village in New England ation rather faintly after the nomination or the northern Middle West could afford a of William Jennings Bryan in 1896. town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few 15 Democrats. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, D. W. BROGAN, The American Character. I would not go there at all. 6 THOMAS JEFFERSON, Letter to Francis Party honesty is party expediency. Hopkinson, 1789. 16 GROVER CLEVELAND, Interview, New York I think that it is very important that we Commercial Advertiser, 19 Sept., 1889. have a two-party country. I am a fellow that 7 "I don't like a rayformer," said Mr. Hennes- likes small parties, and the Republican party is about the size I like. sy. "Or anny other raypublican," said Mr. Doo- LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Press Conference, ley. Washington, D.C., 21 Apr., 1964. 17 FINLEY PETER DUNNE, Observations by There is no Republican way or Democratic Mr. Dooley: Reform Administration. way to clean the streets. 8 FIORELLO H. LA GUARDIA, while mayor of The party should be a knight in shining ar- New York City. Quoted by John V. mor on a white charger. Lindsay during his campaign for the DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, Interview, New same post in 1965. York Times, 13 Sept., 1965, p. 29. Re- 18 ferring to the Republican party. Is there a distinct and coherent political ICS POLITICS POLITICS 301 a political philosophy with 11 parties in this coun- movement, a clear set of principles, which one might The Democratic party is like a mule-with- plant themselves on y grounds to which perhaps call the New Republicanism? out pride of ancestry or hope of posterity. ARTHUR LARSON, A Republican Looks at EMORY STORRS, Speech during the cam- titled, but lash them- His Party, ch. 1 (1956). President Ei- paign of 1888. Also attributed to Wil- rrying of some local senhower and his supporters used the liam C. Linton, Ignatius Donnelly, and e, nowise useful to term New Republicanism on numerous Judge Gay Gordon. the two great parties 12 occasions thereafter. ost share the nation They are sort of like Nixon Democrats. say that one has the He was earnest about these objects. They HARRY S TRUMAN, Reply upon being er contains the best were of eternal importance, like baseball or asked to define a "Truman Republican," the Republican Party. 15 Mar., 1964. 13 cond Series: Politics. SINCLAIR LEWIS, Babbitt, ch. 1. Now is the time for all good men to come to 2 is the party of the A headless torso that must find a central the aid of the party. the Rich. CHARLES E. WELLER, Sentence devised to But nervous system. 1 by a few self-seek- JOHN V. LINDSAY, defining the Republican test the practicability of the first type- ich or Whig party. party after its decisive defeat in the writer, constructed in Milwaukee by 357. 1964 presidential election, in a speech to Christopher Latham Sholes in 1867. the Women's National Press Club, Weller was a court reporter and friend are party govern- Washington, D.C., 15 Dec., 1964. of Sholes. The sentence, which covers a 3 wide range of the keyboard, was in- temarks on the death Our differences are policies, our agreements spired by a political campaign then in rton, U.S. House of principles. progress. It is still widely used. Jan., 1878. WILLIAM MCKINLEY, Speech in Des Moines, Ia., 1901. V-Liberals, Conservatives, and Others me of politics fight 4 oesn't work. There is always some basic principle that See also Conservatism 14 R, News Conference, will ultimately get the Republican party to- A liberal is a man who cultivates the skills Nov., 1964, at which gether. If my observations are worth any- in the presidential that make freedom operational. He is always thing, that basic principle is the cohesive obviously unhappy a man on special assignment. power of public plunder. MAX ASCOLI, The Reporter, 30 Jan., 1964. port given by some A. J. MCLAURIN, Speech in U.S. Senate, 15 the campaign. May, 1906. The true liberal is liberal in human relations 5 and conservative in his economics. He seeks est who serves the My father was a Democrat; my mother was to conserve a capitalistic system character- a Republican; I am an Episcopalian. YES, Inaugural Ad- ized by free enterprise and the profit motive GEORGE C. MARSHALL, on his stand in the because it is essential to liberty. 1952 presidential election. 6 HARRY J. CARMAN, Letter to the Editor, Il-very still. Any party which takes credit for the rain St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 10 Aug., 1964. ming his party affili- must not be surprised if its opponents blame Carman was speaking as chairman of the after the nomination it for the drought. American Liberal Association. S Bryan in 1896. 16 DWIGHT W. MORROW, Speech, Oct., 1930. 7 For all the partisan uses to which the term en but with a party, A good party is better than the best man has been put lately, the "mainstream" does 1. that ever lived. stand for something real. It is a shorthand Letter to Francis THOMAS B. REED. (W. A. ROBINSON, Life description of the American political mind of Reed) or, more accurately, the minds of tens of 8 millions of voters and citizens who form the important that we The Democratic party is like a man riding broad base of our political system. 7. I am a fellow that backward in a railroad car; it never sees ANDREW HACKER, What's the Main- he Republican party anything until it has got past it. stream?; New York Times Magazine, 6 THOMAS B. REED. (W. A. ROBINSON, Life Sept., 1964, p. 5. Press Conference, of Reed) 17 1 Apr., 1964. 9 One of the greatest tragedies would be to The Republicans have their splits right after have two political parties made up just of way or Democratic election and Democrats have theirs just be- the right and the left. fore an election. ALBERTIS HARRISON, JR., speaking as Gov- DIA, while mayor of WILL ROGERS, Syndicated Column, 29 ernor of Virginia. (New York Times, 30 Quoted by John V. Dec., 1930. Aug., 1964, p. 11E, "Ideas and Men.") campaign for the 10 18 I am not a member of any organized political He's a working liberal and not a talking lib- party. I am a Democrat. eral. 1 coherent political Attributed to WILL ROGERS. LYNDON B. JOHNSON, speaking admiringly PN6081 B27 1980 WH t: Familiar Quotations A collection of passages, phrases and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature FIFTEENTH AND 125TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION REVISED AND ENLARGED John Bartlett 11 Edited by EMILY MORISON BECK and the editorial staff of Little, Brown and Company LB LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY BOSTON TORONTO 546 Browning - Dickens 1 Wanting is-what? 11 "An observer of human nature, sir," said Summer redundant, Mr. Pickwick. Ib. 2 Blueness abundant, - - Where is the blot? 12 "It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snod- Wanting Is- What?¹ [1883] grass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon." Ib. 8 2 Out of the wreck I rise. Ixion [1883] 13 I wants to make your flesh creep. 3 Never the time and the place Ib. And the loved one all together! 14 Can I unmoved see thee dying Never the Time and the Place On a log [1883] Expiring frog! Ib. I5 4 Help me with knowledge-for Life's Old 15 Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when Death's New! it an't a woman's. Ib. I9 Epitaph on Levi Lincoln Thaxter, 16 Mr. Weller's knowledge of London was ex- 1824-1884 tensive and peculiar. Ib. 20 5 But little do or can the best of us: 17 I took a good deal o' pains with his eddica- That little is achieved through Liberty. tion, sir; let him run in the streets when he Why I Am a Liberal [1885], l. 9 was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the 6 A minute's success pays the failure of years. only way to make a boy sharp, sir. Ib. Apollo and the Fates [1886], st. 42 18 Be wery careful o' vidders all your life. 7 One who never turned his back but marched Ib. breast forward, 19 The wictim o' connubiality, as Blue Beard's Never doubted clouds would break, domestic chaplain said, with a tear of pity, Never dreamed though right were worsted, ven he buried him. Ib. wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, 20 Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir. Sleep to wake. Ib. 25 Asolando [1889]. Epilogue, st. 3 21 Eccentricities of genius. Ib. 30 22 Keep yourself to yourself. Ib. 32 Samuel Dickinson Burchard 23 Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked po- 1812-1891 etry 'cept a beadle on Boxin' Day. 8 We are Republicans, and don't propose to Ib. 33 leave our party and identify ourselves with 24 She'll wish there was more, and that's the the party whose antecedents have been Rum, great art o' letter-writin'. Ib. Romanism, and Rebellion. 25 Never mind the character, stick to the al- Speaking for a deputation of clergy- leybi. Ib. men calling upon James G. Blaine, the Republican presidential candi- 26 She knows wot's wot, she does. date, in New York [October 29, Ib. 37 1884] 27 They don't mind it; it's a regular holiday to them-all porter and skittles.² Ib. 41 Charles Dickens 28 Anythin' for a quiet life, as the man said wen he took the sitivation at the lighthouse. 1812-1870 Ib. 43 9 A smattering of everything, and a knowl- edge of nothing. 29 Right as a trivet. Ib. 5° Sketches by Boz [1836-1837]. 30 Oliver Twist has asked for more! Tales, ch. 3 Oliver Twist [1837-1838], ch. 2 10 He had used the word [humbug] in its Pick- 31 "The artful Dodger." Ib. 8 wickian sense. 2Life is with such all beer and skittles;/They are not Pickwick Papers [1836-1837], ch. I difficult to please/ About their victuals.-C STUART CALVERLEY [1831-1884], Contentment ¹Browning is-what?/Riddle redundant, / Baldness Life ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity. abundant, / Sense, who can spot?-ANONYMOUS, in GEORGE DU MAURIER, Trilby [1894], pt. I Punch [April 21, 1883] See Hughes, 590:10. Susan Brownwell Anthony 578 Anthony - Sherman 1 Make [your employers] understand that Theodore O'Hara you are in their service as workers, not as 1820-1867 women.¹ The Revolution (woman suffrage 10 On Fame's eternal camping ground newspaper), October 8, 1868 Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards, with solemn round, 2 Join the union, girls, and together say The bivouac of the dead. Equal Pay for Equal Work. 1 The Bivouac of the Dead²[1847], Ib. March 18, 1869 st. I 3 Woman must not depend upon the protec- tion of man, but must be taught to protect 11 Sons of the dark and bloody ground.³ herself. Ib. st. 9 Speech in San Francisco [July 1871] 4 I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely George Frederick Root for what that party has done and promises to 1820-1895 do for women, nothing more, nothing less. 12 Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! the boys are march- Letter to Elizabeth Cady Stanton ing, [autumn 1872] Cheer up, comrades, they will come, 5 Here, in the first paragraph of the Declara- And beneath the starry flag tion [of Independence], is the assertion of the We shall breathe the air again natural right of all to the ballot; for how can Of the free land in our own beloved home. "the consent of the governed" be given, if the Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! [1862] right to vote be denied? Is It a Crime for a Citizen of 13 Yes, we'll rally round the flag, boys, we'll the United States to Vote? Speech rally once again, [1873] before her trial for voting Shouting the battle cry of Freedom. The Battle Cry of Freedom [1863] 6 Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accom- plish this great change is to accord to women Sir William Howard Russell equal power in the making, shaping and con- 1820-1907 trolling of the circumstances of life. 14 The Russians dashed on towards that thin Speech on Social Purity [spring 1875] red-line streak tipped with a line of steel. 7 Failure is impossible. To The Times of London from the At her eighty-sixth birthday cele- Crimea, describing the British in- bration [February 15, 1906] fantry at Balaklava [October 25, 1854] Lucretia Peabody Hale 1820-1900 William Tecumseh Sherman 8 At last Elizabeth Eliza said, "They say that the lady from Philadelphia, who is staying in 1820-1891 town, is very wise. Suppose I go and ask her 15 You cannot qualify war in harsher terms what is best to be done." than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot The Peterkin Papers [1880] refine it. Letter to James M. Calhoun, mayor of Atlanta, and others [September Jean Ingelow 12, 1864] 1820-1897 2Written to commemorate Americans slain in the battle 9 There's no dew left on the daisies and clover, of Buena Vista [February 22-23, 1847]. There's no rain left in heaven: ³Translation of the Indian name Kentucky. 'Soon the men of the column began to see that though I've said my "seven times" over and over, the scarlet line was slender, it was very rigid and exact. Seven times one are seven. -A. W. KINGLAKE [1809-1891], Invasion of the Crimea, Songs of Seven. Seven Times One, vol. III, p. 455 st. I It's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to KIPLING [1865-1936], Tommy, st. 3 ¹See Friedan, 898:6. See Kipling, 708:3. 388 Thomas Jefferson Jefferson since the introduction of Christianity, have 9 We are not to expect to be translated from 1 Still one tl been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet despotism to liberty in a featherbed. Letter to Lafayette [April 2, 1790] wise and frug we have not advanced one inch towards uni- strain men fro formity. What has been the effect of coercion? 10 Let what will be said or done, preserve your shall leave th To make one half the world fools, and the sang-froid immovably, and to every obstacle, their own pur other half hypocrites. Ib. oppose patience, perseverance, and soothing ment, and sha 1 Indeed, I tremble for my country when I language. labor the brea reflect that God is just. Ib. 18 Letter to William Short [March of good gover 18, 1792] close the circl 2 Those who labor in the earth are the cho- sen people of God, if ever he had a chosen 11 Delay is preferable to error. 2 Equal and e people, whose breasts He has made His pecu- Letter to George Washington ever state or liar deposit for substantial and genuine vir- [May 16, 1792] cal; peace, COI tue. Ib. I9 12 We confide in our strength, without boast- with all nati 3 He who permits himself to tell a lie once, ing of it; we respect that of others, without none. Fr finds it much easier to do it a second and third fearing it. the press, an Letter to William Carmichael time, till at length it becomes habitual; he protection of tells lies without attending to it, and truths and William Short [1793] juries impart without the world's believing him. This false- 13 The second office of the government is hon- form the brigl hood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, orable and easy, the first is but a splendid before us, an and in time depraves all its good disposi- misery.² age of revolut Letter to Elbridge Gerry [May 13, dom of our sa tions. Letter to Peter Carr [August 19, 1797] have been dev should be the 1785] 14 Offices are as acceptable here as elsewhere, text of civil 4 The basis of our government being the and whenever a man has cast a longing eye which we try opinion of the people, the very first object on them, a rottenness begins in his conduct. and should V should be to keep that right; and were it left Letter to Tench Coxe [May 21, ments of erro to me to decide whether we should have a 1799] trace our step government without newspapers, or newspa- 15 I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal alone leads to pers without a government, I should not hesi- hostility against every form of tyranny over tate a moment to prefer the latter. the mind of man. Letter to Colonel Edward Carring- Letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush 3 Whensoeve ton [January 16, 1787] [September 23, 1800] quire a resort and convince 5 Experience declares that man is the only 16 We are all Republicans we are all Feder- friends and b animal which devours his own kind; for I can alists. If there be any among us who would apply no milder term to the governments of wish to dissolve this Union or to change its Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on republican form, let them stand undisturbed the poor. Ib. as monuments of the safety with which error 4 The care of of opinion may be tolerated where reason is not their des 6 I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and left free to combat it. 3 legitimate ob then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the First Inaugural Address [March To political world as storms in the physical. 4, 1801] Wa Letter to James Madison [January 30, 1787] 17 But would the honest patriot, in the full [Mc tide of successful experiment, abandon a gov- 5 What country before ever existed a century Politics, lik 7 ernment which has SO far kept us free and and a half without a rebellion? The tree martyrdom to firm, on the theoretic and visionary fear that L of liberty must be refreshed from time to time this government, the world's best hope, may with the blood of patriots and tyrants. 1 It is by possibility want energy to preserve itself? its natural manure. Ib. 6 But though Letter to William Stevens Smith 18 Sometimes it is said that man cannot be gardener. [November 13, 1787] trusted with the government of himself. Can 8 The republican is the only form of govern- he, then, be trusted with the government of ment which is not eternally at open or secret others? Or have we found angels in the forms 7 The earth I war with the rights of mankind. of kings to govern him? Let history answer dead. Letter to William Hunter [March this question. Ib. Let II, 1790] See John Adams, 381:16 yearse shington Washington - - Priestley 379 born, and 1 Let us therefore animate and encourage periment entrusted to the hands of the Ib. V, iii each other, and show the whole world that a American people. Freeman, contending for liberty on his own First Inaugural Address [April ot be sin- ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary 30, 1789] are afraid on earth. 8 Ib. General Orders, Headquarters, Happily the Government of the United New York [July 2, 1776] States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that 2 The time is now near at hand which must they who live under its protection should de- probably determine whether Americans are mean themselves as good citizens in giving it to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to on all occasions their effectual support. ricans all! have any property they can call their own; Letter to the Jewish congregation e fall.⁷ whether their houses and farms are to be pil- of Newport, Rhode Island [1790] ng [1768] laged and destroyed, and themselves con- 9 To be prepared for war is one of the most signed to a state of wretchedness from which effectual means of preserving peace. 2 no human efforts will deliver them. The fate First Annual Address [to both of unborn millions will now depend, under houses of Congress, January 8, God, on the courage and conduct of this army. 1790] Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us d of right only the choice of brave resistance, or the 10 The basis of our political system is the ates; that ce to the most abject submission. We have, therefore, right of the people to make and to alter their to resolve to conquer or die. constitutions of government. connec- Address to the Continental Army Farewell Address [September 17, of Great before the battle of Long Island 1796] issolved. 'ontinen- [August 27, 1776] 11 Let me now warn you in the most sol- adopted 3 There is nothing that gives a man conse- emn manner against the baneful effects of quence, and renders him fit for command, the spirit of party. Ib. like a support that renders him independent 12 Observe good faith and justice toward all of everybody but the State he serves. nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with Letter to the president of Congress, all. The Nation which indulges toward Heights of Harlem [September 24, another an habitual hatred or an habitual 1776] fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a gust 27, slave to its animosity or to its affection, either 4 To place any dependence upon militia, is, 1774] of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its assuredly, resting upon a broken staff. duty and its interest. Ib. Ib. 13 "Tis our true policy to steer clear of perma- 5 Without a decisive naval force we can do nent alliances, with any portion of the for- nothing definitive. And with it, everything eign world. Ib. makes honorable and glorious.¹ To Lafayette [November 15, 1781] 14 There can be no greater error than to ex- success pect or calculate upon real favors from na- 6 If men are to be precluded from offering tion to nation. Ib. Cap- their sentiments on a matter which may in- 15 It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to ments volve the most serious and alarming conse- go. Last words [December 14, 1799] quences that can invite the consideration of rien de mankind, reason is of no use to us; the free- dom of speech may be taken away, and dumb Joseph Priestley³ ord of and silent we may be led, like sheep to the 1733-1804 slaughter. Address to officers of the Army 16 It was ill policy in Leo the Tenth to patron- etter to [March 15, 1783] ize polite literature. He was cherishing an enemy in disguise. And the English hierar- and 7 The preservation of the sacred fire of lib- 2See Aristotle, 87:24; Vegetius, 128:25; Robert Burton, th my erty, and the destiny of the republican model 259:13; Fénelon, 316:12; and Lowell, 568:9. ASON of government, are justly considered as ³See the Bentham footnote to Francis Hutcheson, 342:19. shing- deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the ex- Bentham credits Priestley's Essay on Government [1768] or the work of Cesare Bonesana, Marchese di Beccaria tchet. 'See Themistocles, 70:19; Bacon, 181:11; Waller, 276:3; [1738-1794] with inspiring his concept of "the greatest ngton Mahan, 642:8; and Morison, 800:11. happiness of the greatest number." ny Sherman Sherman - Spencer 579 Hara Hold the fort! I am coming!¹ 11 1 Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, Signal from Kenesaw Mountain to and poetry, may truly be called the efflores- g ground General John Murray Corse at Al- cence of civilized life. ad, latoona Pass [October 5, 1864] Essays on Education [1861]. Edu- lemn round, cation: What Knowledge Is of Most 2 The legitimate object of war is a more per- Worth? the Dead [1847], fect peace. Speech at St. Louis [July 20, 1865] 12 Every cause produces more than one effect. st. I Ib. On Progress: Its Law and Cause 3 War is at best barbarism Its glory is y ground.³ all moonshine. It is only those who have nei- 13 The tyranny of Mrs. Grundy⁵ is worse than Ib. st. 9 ther fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and any other tyranny we suffer under. groans of the wounded who cry aloud for Ib. On Manners and Fashion blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War 14 Old forms of government finally grow SO k Root is hell.² oppressive that they must be thrown off even Attributed to a graduation address at the risk of reigns of terror. Ib. at Michigan Military Academy boys are march- [June 19, 1879]. From the National 15 Music must take rank as the highest of the Tribune, Washington, D.C. [No- fine arts- as the one which, more than any ill come, vember 26, 1914] other, ministers to human welfare. Ib. On the Origin and Function of ain 4 I will not accept if nominated and will not Music beloved home. serve if elected. 3 16 Message to Republican National We too often forget that not only is there "a )! Tramp! [1862] Convention [June 5, 1884] soul of goodness in things evil,"⁶ but very flag, boys, we'll generally a soul of truth in things erroneous. First Principles [1861] reedom. Herbert Spencer 17 The fact disclosed by a survey of the past Freedom [1863] 1820-1903 that majorities have been wrong must not 5 Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but blind us to the complementary fact that a necessity. It is a part of nature. majorities have usually not been entirely I Russell Social Statics [1851], pt. I, ch. 2 wrong. Ib. 18 Volumes might be written upon the im- 6 Education has for its object the formation piety of the pious. Ib. wards that thin of character. Ib. II, 17 line of steel.⁴ 19 We have unmistakable proof that through- 7 The poverty of the incapable, the distresses ondon from the out all past time, there has been a ceaseless the British in- that come upon the imprudent, the starva- devouring of the weak by the strong. tion of the idle, and those shoulderings aside Ib. va [October 25, of the weak by the strong, which leave SO many "in shallows and in miseries,"⁴ are the 20 This survival of the fittest which I have decrees of a large, farseeing benevolence. here sought to express in mechanical terms, Ib. III, 25 is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural herman selection, or the preservation of favored races 8 Opinion is ultimately determined by the in the struggle for life."7 feelings, and not by the intellect. Principles of Biology [1864-1867], harsher terms Ib. IV, 30 pt. III, ch. I2 nd you cannot 9 Morality knows nothing of geographical 21 The Republican form of government is the boundaries or distinctions of race. Ib. 'alhoun, mayor highest form of government: but because of rs [September No one can be perfectly free till all are free; this it requires the highest type of human 10 no one can be perfectly moral till all are nature- a type nowhere at present existing. slain in the battle moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all Essays [1891]. The Americans are happy. Ib. 22 The ultimate result of shielding men from ntucky. ¹He actually said: "Hold out. Relief is coming." General the effects of folly is to fill the world with O see that though Corse replied: "I am short a cheekbone and an ear, but am fools. y rigid and exact. on of the Crimea, able to whip all hell yet." Ib. State Tamperings with Money See Philip Bliss, 635:22. Banks e drums begin to ²See Robert E. Lee, 509:8. ³The familiar version is: If nominated I will not run; if ⁵See Thomas Morton, 416:10. t. 3 elected I will not serve. ⁶See Shakespeare, 208:3. 4See Shakespeare, 217:5. ⁷See Darwin, 514:15. Talleyrand Talleyrand - Hamilton 401 1 [To a young diplomat] Don't be eager!¹ Alexander Hamilton From CHARLES AUGUSTIN SAINT- 1755-1804 BEUVE, Portraits de Femmes [1858]. presume to Madame de Staël 10 A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.⁶ nerald Isle. 2 2 War is much too serious a matter to be Letter to Robert Morris [April 30, [1795], st. 3 entrusted to the military.² 1781] Attributed. Quoted by Briand to Lloyd George during World War I. 11 I believe the British government forms the Also attributed to Clemenceau best model the world ever produced. This government has for its object public strength and individual security. I wanted to Benjamin Waterhouse Debates of the Federal Convention oung to say 1754-1846 [May 14-September 17, 1787].⁷ sées [1842] 3 Tobacco is a filthy weed, June 18, 1787 rything! That from the devil does proceed; 12 All communities divide themselves into Ib. It drains your purse, it burns your clothes, the few and the many. The first are the rich And makes a chimney of your nose. Ib. and wellborn, the other the mass of the peo- From OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES ple. The people are turbulent and [1809-1894], who was vaccinated changing; they seldom judge or determine by Dr. Waterhouse d right. Give therefore to the first class a dis- tinct, permanent share in the government. Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac They will check the unsteadiness of the sec- es are com- 1755-1841 ond, and as they cannot receive any advan- tage by a change, they therefore will ever eath on the 4 The tree of liberty only grows when wa- maintain good government. Ib. RTINE, His- tered by the blood of tyrants.³ Speech in the National Convention 13 17] We are now forming a republican govern- [January 16, 1793] ment. Real liberty is neither found in despo- tism or the extremes of democracy, but in 5 It is only the dead who do not return. moderate governments. Speech [1794] Ib. June 26, 1787 14 Let Americans disdain to be the instru- Anthelme Brillat-Savarin ments of European greatness. Let the thir- 1755-1826 teen States, bound together in a strict and 6 Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one for coffee what you are.⁴ great American system, superior to the con- Physiologie du Goût [1825], ch. 4 trol of all transatlantic force or influence, ned noth- and able to dictate the terms of the connec- 7 A dessert without cheese is like a beautiful tion between the old and the new world! AT, letter woman with only one eye. Ib. 14 The Federalist [1787-1788], no. II ary 1796] 8 A meal without wine is like a day without 15 sunshine. Ib. Government implies the power of making It is the laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other L'Esprit Nathan Hale words, a penalty or punishment for disobedi- re [1857] 1755-1776 ence. Ib. I5 religions 9 I only regret that I have but one life to lose 16 Why has government been instituted at ttributed for my country.⁵ all? Because the passions of men will not con- Last words, before being hanged by form to the dictates of reason and justice, an who the British as a spy [September 22, without constraint. Ib. nan who 1776] tributed 17 Every power vested in a government is in ¹Pas de zèle! Ireland. its nature sovereign, and includes by force of 2La guerre! C'est une chose trop grave pour la confier enfer, / Pur à des militaires. ⁶At the time we were funding our national debt, we Sometimes quoted as: War is much too serious to leave heard much about "a public debt being a public blessing." coffeepots. to the generals. -THOMAS JEFFERSON, Letter to John W. Epps [Novem- ³See Tertullian, 126:3, and Jefferson, 388:7. ber 6, 1813] 'See Ruskin, 573.5 See Webster, 450:12. ⁵See Addison, 326:1. At which the Constitution was written. Ref. PN6081 A53 1989 WH THE ÇONCISE COLUMBIA DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS Robert Andrews Columbi 242 243 Slander d Silence like a poultice comes To sin is in itself excusable; to be taken is a martyrdom meaningless by not committing heal the blows of sound. crime. them? Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) John Fletcher (1579-1625) Jules Feiffer (b. 1929) American writer, physician English dramatist American cartoonist een breaking silence these twenty-three No matter how hard the times get, the wages Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. d have hardly made a rent in it. of sin are always liberal and on the dot. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) H. D. Thoreau (1817-1862) Kin (F. McKinney) Hubbard (1868-1930) SEE Wilson on The CHURCH OF ften repented speaking, but never of American humorist, journalist ENGLAND; Milton on CRIME; my tongue. There are only two sorts of men: the one the de Madariaga on The ENGLISH; Xenocrates (396-315 BC) just, who believe themselves sinners; the other Marlowe on MITIGATION; Crane Greek philosopher sinners, who believe themselves just. on PARTNERSHIPS; Twain on is the virtue of fools. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) PREACHING; France, Marlowe on Francis Bacon (1561-1626) RELIGION; Billings, Dryden on He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at REPENTANCE; Bierce, Wilde on fool, when he holdeth his peace, is it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil. SAINTHOOD; Molière on SCANDAL; wise. Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) Butler on SENSE OF HUMOUR Bible, Proverbs English cleric It makes a great difference whether a person is Sincerity st silent people are generally those who It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are nost highly of themselves. unwilling to sin, or does not know how. also stupid. William Hazlitt (1778-1830) Seneca (c. 5-65) George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) English essayist Roman writer, philosopher, statesman To abstain from sin when a man cannot sin is Most remarks that are worth making are nay be other reasons for a man's not to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. commonplace remarks. The thing that makes g in publick than want of resolution: Saint Augustine (354-430) them worth saying is that we really mean have nothing to say. them. Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) Many are saved from sin by being so inept at Robert Lynd (1879-1949) emies might have said before that he it. Anglo-Irish essayist. journalist rather too much; but now he has Mignon McLaughlin I only desire sincere relations with the worth- nal flashes of silence, that make his American author iest of my acquaintance, that they may give me ation perfectly delightful. For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure an opportunity once in a year to speak the Sydney Smith (1771-1845) in it, truth. English clergyman, writer And do it for the pleasure. H. D. Thoreau (1817-1862) of Macaulay Gerald Gould (1885-1936) British poet Do not wonder if the common people speak an's silence is wonderful to listen to. more truly than those of higher rank; for they Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) When we sin, we are all ashamed at the speak with more safety. SEE Emerson on APPLAUSE; presence of our inferiors. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Chesterton on CONVERSATION; John Chrysostom (345-407) SEE La Rochefoucauld on SOCIABILITY Heine on The ENGLISH; Stevenson Greek ecclesiast and hermit on LYING; Eliot on MODESTY The Sixties Few love to hear the sins they love to act. Pericles. Pericles All that Swinging Sixties nonsense, we all ak will sink a ship, and one sin will William Shakespeare (1564-1616) thought it was passé at the time. David Bailey (b. 1938) a sinner. Should we all confess our sins to one another British photographer John Bunyan (1628-1688) we would all laugh at one another for our lack I was appalled when the San Francisco ethic hich we call sin in others, is experiment of originality. didn't mushroom and envelope the whole Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) world into this loving community of acid R. W. Emerson (1803-1882) Syrian mystic, poet freaks. I was very naïve. American essayist, poet, philosopher A private sin is not so prejudicial in the world Grace Slick (b. 1939) part of mankind is angry not with the as a public indecency. American rock singer It with the sinners. Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) Slander Seneca (c. 5-65) When the righteous man turneth away from No character, however upright, is a match for Roman writer, philosopher. statesman his righteousness that he hath committed and constantly reiterated attacks, however false. g makes one so vain as being told that doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) a sinner. quite right, he will generally be found to have American statesman Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness. I will make a bargain with the Democrats. If it a sin twice and it will not seem a Samuel Butler (1835-1902) they will stop telling lies about Republicans English author we will stop telling the truth about them. Rabbinical saying Chauncey Depew (1834-1928) Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his American Republican politician Egoism 80 81 British parents are very ready to call for a Eloc The idea that egotism is the basis of the system of education which offers equal oppor- general welfare is the principle on which A tunity to all children except their own. competitive society has been built. Lord Eccles (b. 1904) Erich Fromm (1900-1980) British Conservative politician American psychologist True education makes for inequality; the T An inflated consciousness is always egocentric inequality of individuality, the inequality of de and conscious of nothing but its own existence. success, the glorious inequality of talent, of It is incapable of learning from the past, genius. incapable of understanding contemporary Felix E. Schelling (1858-1945) events, and incapable of drawing right conclu- G American educator sions about the future. It is hypnotized by a: Workers of England be wise, and then you itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It must be free, for you will be fit to be free. inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead. Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) Ir English author, clergyman Carl Jung (1875-1961) W Education makes a people easy to lead, but Edith was a little country bounded on the difficult to drive; easy to govern but impos- north, south, east and west by Edith. L sible to enslave. Martha Ostenso (1900-1963) d American author Lord Brougham (1778-1868) T Scottish Whig politician SEE Wilding on ACTORS; Fuller on St It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are BORES; Webb on GENIUS; SELF dangerous, but the revolts of intelligence. Elections J. R. Lowell (1819-1891) There's small choice in rotten apples. T American poet Hortensia, The Taming of the Shrew o Human history becomes more and more a race William Shakespeare (1564-1616) H W between education and catastrophe. Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be H. G. Wells (1866-1946) the least disappointing. When a man's education is finished, he is Bernard Baruch (1870-1965) American financier H finished. E. A. Filene (1860-1937) I never vote for anyone. I always vote against. t American businessman, financier W. C. Fields (1879-1946) SEE Shaw on CLASS; Chesterton on It doesn't matter who you vote for, the FOREIGNERS; Hughes on PLAY; government always gets in. \ PRIVATE EDUCATION; Trevelyan on graffito in London, 1970s READING; SCHOOL; STUDENTS; S TEACHERS; UNIVERSITY Bad officials are elected by good citizens who t do not vote. Egoism George Jean Nathan (1882-1958) Man can be defined as the animal that can say American critic 'I', that can be aware of himself as a separate I just received the following wire from my entity. Erich Fromm (1900-1980) generous Daddy: "Dear Jack, Don't buy a Em American psychologist single vote more than necessary. I'll be 1 damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide'. t The great act of faith is when a man decides John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) that he is not God. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935) The Republicans have a 'me too' candidate running on a 'yes but' platform, advised by a American jurist has been' staff. Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) in himself than me. American Democratic politician Em Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American author Indeed, you won the elections, but I won the count. Talk to a man about himself and he will listen Anastasio Somoza (1896-1956) for hours. dictator of Nicaragua Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) to an opponent accusing him A self-made man; who worships his creator. of rigging the election John Bright (1811-1889) SEE Pope on GOVERNMENT English Radical politician of Benjamin Disraeli Ref PN6081 or THE HOME BOOK OF HUMOROUS QUOTATIONS SELECTED AND ARRANGED BY A.K. ADAMS 11 DODD,M &COMPANY NEW YORK DRESS DRESS 95 Where th' belles dress as scantily as our A 1 pair of female slacks represents the tri- girls here at home. umph of moral courage over vanity. FRANK MCKINNEY (KIN) HUBBARD, Abe am'd last night, Cream of Wit, compiled by ROD ASKELL. Martin's Primer. 13 Tell Me What 2 The Big Baboon A man made by God and not by a tailor. ANDREW JACKSON, referring to Sam Hous- The Big Baboon is found upon ton. (MCELROY, Grover Cleveland.) The plains of Cariboo; pproached Mr. He goes about with nothing on 14 his early days Once at a banquet the Apostolic Nuncio to (A shocking thing to do.) company "with But if he dressed respectably France [later Pope John XXIII] found him- g over the face self seated next to an elegant lady in a dress And let his whiskers grow in gruffly, "No, How like this Big Baboon would be cut overgenerously low in the neck. When d them, I'd be the dessert was served, he invited her to To Mister So and So! take the apple which he held out to her. HILAIRE BELLOC. Killed Society? Since the lady showed surprise at this ges- 3 It has the subtle flavor of an old pair of SOX. ture, Msgr. Roncalli added: 7 n Chou, dreamt WILLIAM COWPER BRANN, The Iconoclast. "Do take it, Madame, please do. It was her and thither, only after Eve ate the apple that she became 4 butterfly. I was aware of how little she had on!" God makes and the tailor shapes. ess as a butter- From Wit and Wisdom of Good Pope JOHN BULWER, Anthropomet. Soon I awaked, John, compiled by HENRI FESQUET. 5 myself again. This same Miss McFlimsey of Madison 15 I was then a Tell him to go ahead with the blue suit. We Square, fly, or whether The last time we met was in utter despair, can use that no matter what happens. lg I am a man. Because she had nothing whatever to wear! LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Reply to a query o-tze. Columbia WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER, Nothing to Wear. from a tailor from whom Johnson had er, 1966. ordered two suits shortly before the lat- 6 ter was stricken with a severe heart at- He was old-fashioned enough to be a trifle very one of us shocked on beholding a grandmother with tack in July, 1955. While Johnson was ne every night one leg in the grave and the other in knee- in a Washington hospital, the tailor called to inquire whether he should pro- pants. ewsweek, Nov. IRWIN S. CoBB, If I Were a Woman. ceed with the order. (HENRY A. ZEIGER, Lyndon B. Johnson: Man and Presi- 7 One of our unfavorite sights is a mini skirt dent, p. 59.) .0 easy to take 16 on a maxi mum. i. too. The uniform 'e wore HAROLD COFFIN, San Francisco Examiner. Builder, Act Was nothin' much before, 8 An' rather less than 'arf o' that be'ind. Trousers, trousers, why do women-with RUDYARD KIPLING, Gunga Din. had yet to be the lovely shape which God has given them 17 -want to wear trousers? A sensational event was changing from the t Thoughts, tr. LORD CURZON, quoted by LEONARD MOSLEY brown suit to the gray the contents of his in The Glorious Fault. GALASKA. pockets. He was earnest about these objects. 9 They were of eternal importance, like base- It was such a Some women grow old gracefully-others ball or the Republican Party. wear stretch pants. SINCLAIR LEWIS, Babbitt. Thoughts, tr. ROGER DEVLIN, Tulsa Tribune. 18 GALASKA. 10 I can not contribute to the end in view. Your age and my discretion. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Reply to a request to MARY GARDEN, to Chauncey Depew when contribute to buying a Bloomington man he asked her what was holding up her a new pair of pants. From The Humor- daringly low-cut gown. (Time, Jan. 13, ous Mr. Lincoln by KEITH W. JEN- Shoes 1967.) NISON. hat make fine 11 19 The more a feller really amounts to th' The miniskirt is a functional thing. It en- ock. worse his clothes fit. ables young ladies to run faster-and be- FRANK MCKINNEY (KIN) HUBBARD, Abe cause of it they may have to. acks that had Martin's Primer. JOHN V. LINDSAY, quoting Time. 12 20 Z stands fer Zanibar, in th' tropical zone I have a hankering to go back to the Orient S POLITICS POLITICS 271 describe holding 1 ary, The New York Times, June 21, More recently one United States Senator 1965. ving his position said of another: "There's no use telling that 10 Quoted in Time, fellow anything. It just goes in one head Vote for the man who promises least. He'll and out the other." be the least disappointing. GEORGE E. ALLEN, Presidents Who Have BERNARD M. BARUCH, quoted in Meyer in ignoring facts. Known Me. Berger's New York. ucation of Henry 2 11 He's certain to get the divorce vote, and The Payne tariff bill has also shown that the remember that's one in four these days. Republicans are expert mathematicians. uch given to ad- CLEVELAND AMORY, NBC-TV, April 6, They can add, subtract, multiply, and divide periority less ob- 1962. all in one operation. They can add to the 0 outsiders, one 3 wealth of the rich, subtract from the sub- is own inferiority The presidential campaign speech is, like stance of the poor, multiply millionaires, eldom likes to be jazz, one of the few truly American art and divide themselves-all in one bill. forms. It is not, of course, unknown in REPRESENTATIVE JACK BEALL OF TEXAS, ucation of Henry other democratic countries, but nowhere else 1910. has it achieved the same degree of virtuos- 12 ity; nowhere else is it so accurate a reflec- Let the hand of discipline smite the leprous rst vice-president, tion of national character: by turns solemn lips which utter the profane heresy, All is 1 for me the most or witty, pompous or deeply moving, full of fair in politics. r the invention of sense or full of wind. HENRY WARD BEECHER, quoted in Henry nation conceived." ANONYMOUS, American Heritage, Aug., Ward Beecher: An American Portrait, in the Ring. See 1964. by PAXTON HIBBEN. NER and THOMAS 4 13 section. As Maine goes, so goes the nation. Dr. Beer had distinguished himself for ANONYMOUS, political saying that gained having described the Eisenhower era as a S whole body, currency after Benjamin Harrison's vic- period of "glacial immobility-the Ike age." gall; his tongue tory in 1888. See also FARLEY in this VICTOR LASKY, J.F.K.: The Man and the section. Myth. n John Randolph 5 All political parties die at last of swallowing 14 and Wisdom of their own lies. Disraeli cynically expressed the dilemma ARD BOYKIN.) JOHN ARBUTHNOT, quoted by RICHARD when he said: "I must follow the people. GARNETT, Life of Emerson. Am I not their leader?" He might have I Charles E. Wil- added: "I must lead the people. Am I not 6 uspicious of any Esthetically speaking, Presidential Inaugura- their servant?" dollars when he tions have begun to go the way of the Holly- EDWARD L. BERNAYS, Propaganda. wood biblical epic. Both are afflicted by the 15 on Senate con- national passion for overproducing the sim- Politics is the art of the next best. as Secretary of plest of dramas. OTTo VON BISMARCK, quoted in The New d Allen's Letters, RUSSELL BAKER, The New York Times, York Times, Aug. 11, 1957. :) Jan. 21, 1965. 16 7 Mr. Lincoln is like a waiter in a large eating tand for nothing I defined a bureaucrat as "a Democrat who house where all the bells are ringing at once; esty in war con- holds some office that a Republican wants." he cannot serve them all at once, and so nding for virtue ALBEN W. BARKLEY, That Reminds Me. some grumblers are to be expected. rainfall in the 8 JOHN BRIGHT, Cincinnati Gazette, 1864. When I was in the House, I was told that 17 lents Who Have the difference between the House Foreign In several ways, the [political] convention is Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign a peculiar institution. Like an impatient Relations Committee was that the Senators Brigadoon, it comes to life every four years; ears it said that were too old to have affairs. They only have it is master of its own rules, and its decisions but he is our relations. are as irrevocable as a haircut. Yet, the con- or of our support. ALBEN W. BARKLEY, quoted by PEGGY vention isn't even mentioned in the Consti- lents Who Have McEvoy, Reader's Digest, Feb., 1951. tution or in any law ever passed by Congress. 9 In this sense, it might be described as the A political leader must keep looking over his most unofficial official (or most official un- it pregnant. shoulder all the time to see if the boys are official) gathering in politics. ents Who Have still there. If they aren't still there, he's no DAVID BRINKLEY, The Way It's Been; to Gallup poll longer a political leader. The New York Times, July 12, 1964, BERNARD M. BARUCH, quoted in his obitu- sec. 11, p. 3. 278 POLITICS POLITICS tactics. That is like the Observatore Romano 7 criticizing the Pope. What are we going to do with the Republi- JOHN F. KENNEDY, from The Quotable cans? They can point to Benjamin Harrison, Mr. Kennedy, ed. by GERALD GARDNER. who according to legend saw a man forced 1 by the depression to eat grass on the White Whenever, he said, a politician means to House lawn and had only one suggestion for give you the knife at a convention, the last him-that he go around to the back where thing he'll say to you, as he leaves the room, the grass was longer. is: "Now look, Jack, if there's anything I JOHN F. KENNEDY, Speech in Springfield, can do for you, you just let me know!" Ill., Oct. 3, 1960. That's the euphemism for "You're dead." 8 JOHN F. KENNEDY, quoted by GORE VIDAL I want to express my great appreciation to in Rocking the Boat: Politics, 1962. all of you for your kindness in coming out 2 and giving us a warm Hoosier welcome. I Mr. Nixon may be very experienced in understand that this town suffered a mis- kitchen debates. So are a great many other fortune this morning when the bank was married men I know. robbed. I am confident that the Indianapolis JOHN F. KENNEDY, Speech in Alexandria, Star will say, "Democrats Arrive and Bank Va., Aug. 24, 1960. The reference is to Robbed." But we don't believe that. Richard Nixon's debate with Khru- JOHN F. KENNEDY, Campaign speech in shchev. Anderson, Ind., Oct. 5, 1960. 3 9 In the Soviet Union he [Richard Nixon] ar- Mr. [Harold] Stassen announces he will run gued with Mr. Khrushchev in the kitchen, it for Governor of Pennsylvania. He has al- is true, pointing out that while we may be ready been Governor of Minnesota. That behind in space, we were ahead in color tele- leaves only forty-six states still in jeopardy. vision. JOHN F. KENNEDY, Speech in San Fran- JOHN F. KENNEDY, Speech in Alexandria, cisco, Nov. 2, 1960. Va., Aug. 24, 1960. 10 4 I understand Tom Dewey has just joined It is, I think, a source of concern to us all Dick Nixon out on the Coast, to give him that the first dogs carried around in outer some last-minute strategy on how to win space were not named Rover and Fido but an election. instead were named Belka and Strelka. It JOHN F. KENNEDY, Speech in New York was not named Checkers either. City, Nov. 5, 1960. JOHN F. KENNEDY, Speech in Muskegon, 11 Mich., Sept. 5, 1960. Checkers was the dog owned by Kennedy's opponent, Mr. Nixon in the last seven days has called Richard M. Nixon. me an economic ignoramus, a Pied Piper, and all the rest. I've just confined myself to 5 Question: Senator, when does the morato- calling him a Republican, but he says that rium end on Nixon's hospitalization and is getting low. your ability to attack him? JOHN F. KENNEDY, Speech in New York Mr. Kennedy: Well, I said I would not men- City, Nov. 5, 1960. tion him unless I could praise him until he 12 got out of the hospital, and I have not men- It's a big job. It isn't going to be so bad. tioned him. You've got time to think. You don't have JOHN F. KENNEDY, Speech in Burbank, all those people bothering you that you had Calif., Sept. 9, 1960, during the presi- in the Senate-besides, the pay is pretty dential campaign. good. 6 JOHN F. KENNEDY, Statement about the Ladies and Gentlemen, it is my understand- presidency, Georgetown, Dec., 1960. ing that the last candidate for the presidency 13 to visit this community in a presidential What a lousy, fouled-up job this has turned year was Herbert Hoover in 1928. President out to be. Hoover initiated on the occasion of his visit JOHN F. KENNEDY to Senator Barry Gold- the slogan "Two chickens for every pot," water after Kennedy's election as Presi- and it is no accident that no presidential dent. Quoted by VICTOR LASKY in candidate has ever dared come back to this J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth. community since. 14 JOHN F. KENNEDY, Speech in Bristol, I know that when things don't go well they Tenn., Sept. 21, 1960. like to blame the Presidents, and that is one LITICS POLITICS POLITICS 277 who's against you, then you're in the wrong role as Senate majority leader during idate kin place you while line of work. the Eisenhower Administration, when he ce it's no sign he kin do LYNDON B. JOHNSON, quoted by BOOTH was frequently criticized by fellow MOONEY in The Lyndon Johnson Story. Democrats for not following a more ag- Y (KIN) HUBBARD, Abe 1 gressively partisan course. (HENRY A. I seldom think of politics more than eighteen ZEIGER, Lyndon B. Johnson: Man and hours a day. President, p. 61.) ile we miss a nuisance, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Speech to a Texas 9 got a political job. audience, 1958. (HENRY A. ZEIGER, "In politics," he drummed into his protégé's Y (KIN) HUBBARD, Abe Lyndon B. Johnson: Man and President, [John F. Kennedy] head, "you have no p. 68.) friends, only co-conspirators." 2 ere is none where first JOSEPH KANE, quoted by VICTOR LASKY Good-by, Culpeper. God bless you, Cul- in J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth. re deceitful than in poli- peper! What did Dick Nixon ever do for 10 Culpeper? "I have always found Roosevelt [Franklin ays, 33. LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Speech (conclusion) Delano Roosevelt, Jr.] an amusing fellow," in Culpeper, Va., during the 1960 cam- e that I understand he's commented the irrepressible Murray Kemp- paign. This is the best-remembered ex- vie contract-with 18th ton, "but I would not employ him, except ample of Johnson's whistle-stop tech- for reasons of personal friendship, as a geek nique during an intensive tour of the in a common carnival." REY, Comment on Sena- South in behalf of the Kennedy-Johnson VICTOR LASKY, J.F.K.: The Man and the at banquet of Women's ticket. Myth. Club. (Time, Jan. 27, 3 11 Jack was out kissing babies when I was There is one piece about how I felt when passing bills. Eisenhower beat Stevenson which I have politics is an iridescent LYNDON B. JOHNSON. The reference is to kept because I feel the same way even now. John F. Kennedy. \LLS, Epigram. I quit voting after 1956, the second time 4 Stevenson lost; I could not think of a better They've been peddling eyewash about them- South, about Alabama time to stop. selves and hogwash about Democrats. What putting his wife up for MURRAY KEMPTON, America Comes of they need is a good mouthwash. OWS make strange poli- Middle Age. LYNDON B. JOHNSON, charging his op- 12 ponents with slurring John F. Kennedy's vsletter. Quoted in Read- A political convention is just not a place patriotism, Oct. 23, 1960. ot., 1966. See WARNER in where you can come away with any trace of 5 faith in human nature. I want to be progressive without getting both If MURRAY KEMPTON, America Comes of feet off the ground at the same time. les behind Middle Age. I had to place a label on myself, I would es before, want to be a progressive who is prudent. 13 f precedent LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Interview televised Jack and Bob will run the show, eodore.) nationally from Washington, D.C., Mar. While Ted's in charge of hiding Joe. The Ballad of Grizzly Couplet in reference to John F. Kennedy, 15, 1964. Robert Kennedy, and Ted Kennedy. Joe 6 I think that it is very important that we is Joseph Kennedy, their father. The heaven but with a party, have a two-party country. I am a fellow that accusation had been made that Kennedy at all. likes small parties, and the Republican party senior was kept under wraps during SON, Letter to Francis is about the size I like. J.F.K.'s campaign because he had views 9. LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Press Conference, different from those of the presidential candidate. Washington, D.C., Apr. 21, 1964. S cast a longing eye on 14 7 egins in his conduct. Talking to Democrats about the qualities of This district [Brooklyn] was the first dis- )N, Letter to T. Coxe, our party-and the shortcomings of the op- trict to endorse me as a candidate for Presi- position-is like the preacher telling the dent My own family had not even en- people who are already in their pews what dorsed me when you endorsed me. sign. a sin it is not to come to church. JOHN F. KENNEDY, from The Quotable N, Letter to a Commit- LYNDON B. JOHNSON, Speech, Jefferson- Mr. Kennedy, ed. by GERALD C. GARD- ts of New Haven, July Jackson Day Dinner. NER. nce to office holders. 8 15 The irresponsibles win elections-but always Mr. Nixon, like the rest of us, has had his and you can't tell when for the other party. troubles in this campaign. At one point even om who's for you and LYNDON B. JOHNSON, commenting on his the Wall Street Journal was criticizing his

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