"If Washington were President now, he would have to learn our ways or lose his next election. Only fools and theorists imagine tha...t our society can be handled with gloves or long poles. One must make one's self a part of it. If virtue won't answer our purpose, we must use vice, or our opponents will put us out of office, and this was as true in Washington's day as it is now, and always will be."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
America had no use for Adams because he was eighteenth-century, and yet it worshipped Grant because he was archaic and should have... lived in a cave and worn skins.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am no book larnt man, but there is few who can beat me swapping horses or guessing at the weight of a bar. I have come here beca...use my people voted for me, knowing I was a honest man and could make as good whiskey and apple brandy at my still as any man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Following publication of an advertisement of a "Barbacue & Ice" at Beauchamp's Springs, at which congressional candidates were to ...speak, the editor of the Houston Morning Star, of July 4, 1839, said: "(It will) not be an unfavorable opportunity for these gentlemen to express their true politics ... provided ... the liquors do not prove too powerful."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It has been years since I have seen anyone who could even look as if he were in love. No one's face lights up any more except for ...political conversation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What you don't understand about this town is that they can fight about issues all they want, but they don't really care about them.... What they really care about is who they sit next to at dinner.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons; that is en...tirely within the charmed circle of woman's sphere; but for women to occupy any of those official seats would be degrading.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »