George W. Plunkitt Quotes
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You can’t study human nature in books. Books is a hindrance more than anything else
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Some young men think they can learn how to be successful in politics from books, and they cram their heads with all sorts of college rot. They couldn’t make a bigger mistake.
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They learned how to put up a pretty good bluff—and bluff counts a lot in politics.
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The men who rule have practiced keepin’ their tongues still, not exercisin’ them.
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You can’t be patriotic on a salary that just keeps the wolf from the door.
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Reform is like morning glories; they look great early in the day and then they disappear.
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I ain’t up on sillygisms, but I can give you some arguments that nobody can answer.
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This civil service law is the biggest fraud of the age. It is the curse of the nation.
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Before then when a party won, its workers got everything in sight. That was somethin’ to make a man patriotic.
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The Democratic party of the nation ain’t dead, though it’s been givin’ a lifelike imitation of a corpse for several years.
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The politician who steals is worse than a thief. He is a fool. With all the grand opportunities around for the man with a political pull, there's no excuse for stealin' a cent.
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Men ain’t in politics for nothin’. They want to get somethin’ out of it.
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Politics is as much a regular business as the grocery or the dry-goods or the drug business. You've got to be trained up to it or you're sure to fail.