Of course, the day may come when we’ll reject the money of the rich as tainted, but it hadn’t come when I left Tammany Hall at 11:25 A.M. today. <sma… - George W. Plunkitt

You can’t be patriotic on a salary that just keeps the wolf from the door. <small>p. 56</small>

Just remember that there’s thirty-five Assembly districts in New York County, and thirty-six district leaders reachin’ out for the Tammany dough-bag for somethin’ to keep up the patriotism of ten thousand workers, and you wouldn’t wonder that the cry for more, more, is goin’ up from every district organization now and forevermore. Amen. <small>p. 76</small>

The Democratic party of the nation ain’t dead, though it’s been givin’ a lifelike imitation of a corpse for several years. <small>p. 88</small>