Politics and Power

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions....there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions .

The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race .

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

When congress is in session no American is safe.

Senator: Person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time.

A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public

The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

Vote: The only commodity that is peddle able without a license.

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.

A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.

I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets .

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Congress: America's only true criminal class.

Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.