3 Thomas R. Marshall Quotes on Politics

Thomas R. Marshall quotes on politics

3. There was not one of my blood, in or out of the Union Army who was not either serving and sacrificing at home or suffering and dying among the hills and valleys of the southland for the preservation of the Union. And yet, so bitter was the politics of the time that they had to undergo the suspicion of being disloyal to their country because they did not vote the Republican ticket. My grandfather and my father were notified by the Methodist preacher whose church they attended that he would have to strike their names off the roll if they continued to vote the Democratic ticket. My grandfather, as a fiery Virginian, announced that he was willing to take his chance on Hell but never on the Republican party.

9. Bristow hasn't hit it yet. What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar. --reported comment made to a Senate clerk while Senator Joseph Bristow of Kansas was making a speech in which he repeatedly used the phrase, 'What this country needs....' Although Marshall may have spoken the words, they originated with newspaper cartoonist Kin Hubbard who had his 'Abe Martin' character say them. 1

10. An unfriendly fairy godmother presented him with a keen sense of humor. Nothing is more fatal in politics. --Colonel Edward M. House, adviser to President Woodrow Wilson.2