Chaos Often Breeds Life, When Order Breeds

I Would Rather Starve And Rot And Keep The Privilege Of Speaking The Truth As I See It, Than Of Holding All The Offices That Capital Has To Give From The Presidency Down.

I Have Written Too Much History To Have Faith In It; And If Anyone Thinks I'm Wrong, I Am Inclined To Agree With Him.

A Congressman Is A Pig. The Only Way To Get His Snout From The Trough Is To Rap It Sharply With A Stick.

The Work Of Internal Government Has Become The Task Of Controlling The Thousands Of Fifth-rate Men.

Although The Senate Is Much Given To Admiring In Its Members A Superiority Less Obvious Or Quite Invisible To Outsiders, One Senator Seldom Proclaims His Own Inferiority To Another, And Still More Seldom Likes To Be Told Of It.