6 Henry Fountain Ashurst Quotes on Politics

Henry Fountain Ashurst quotes on politics

3. I suffer from cacoethes loquendi, a mania or itch for talking, and from vanity . . . and morbidity, and, as is obvious to everyone who knows me, an inborn, an inveterate flair for histrionics. ... I am pachydermatous. ... I am a veritable peripatetic bifurcated volcano on behalf of Democratic principles.

4. No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.

6. There has never been superadded to these vices of mine the withering, embalming vice of consistency.

7. I could throw 56-pound words clear across the Grand Canyon. As a matter of course, I went into politics.

8. Whoever in his public services is handcuffed and shackled by the vice of consistency will be a man not free to act as various questions come before him from time to time; he will be a statesman locked in a prison house, keys to which are in the keeping of days and events that are dead. Let me quote Emerson: 'A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen.'

10. When I have to choose between voting for the people or the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget.