Consul. In American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on... condition that he leave the country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main... sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kow-tow before any United States pro-consul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory ti...ll you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If they [Mexicans] touch the hair of the head of one of our citizens, tell him [Commodore Dallas] to batter down and destroy their... town and exterminate the inhabitants from the face of the earth!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Custom calls me to't. What custom wills, in all things should we do't,... The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heaped For truth to o'erpeer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »