They learned how to put up a pretty good bluff—and bluff counts a lot in politics. <small>p. 18</small> - George W. Plunkitt

The name-parted-in-the-middle aristocrats act in just the same way. They don’t want to be annoyed with firecrackers and the Declaration of Independence, and when they see the Fourth comin’ they hustle off to the woods like my dog. <small>p. 71</small>

The railroad is a great public institution, and I was never an enemy of public institutions. <small>p. 63</small>

Then will return the good old times, when our district leaders could have nice comfortable primary elections at some place selected by themselves and let in only men that they approved of as good Democrats. <small>p. 83</small>