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Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.
But I repeat myself. |
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Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman
can. ...the smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the
cowardliest hearts that God makes. Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown
man. All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for
idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and
heredity. |
 Illustration from AMERICAN EXAMINER, 1910 from the Dave Thomson collection |
| The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes
a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether--Well,
you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there. - Mark Twain's Speeches, "The Weather" It is the foreign element that commits our crimes. There is no native criminal class except Congress. - More Maxims of Mark, Merle Johnson, 1927 Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues. - Notebook, 1868 ...I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman. - "Foster's Case," New York Tribune, 10 March 1873 |
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