Th' prisidincy is th' highest office in th' gift iv th people. Th' vice-prisidincy is th' next highest an' the lowest. It isn't a crime exactly. Ye can't be sint to jail f r it but it's a kind iv a disgrace.
If you are as happy my dear sir on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home you are the happiest man in this country.
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George Buchanan
I would rather be right than President.
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Henry Clay
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
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Thomas Jefferson
If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years I would say the penitentiary thank you.
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William Tecumseh Sherman
They pick a President and then for four years they pick on him.
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Adlai Stevenson
More Quotes By Finley Peter Dunne
The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better -- it is just turning around as usual.
Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward.
Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing.
Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.
