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Joseph Gurney Cannon Quotes

Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise.

Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise.

Joseph Gurney Cannon
Compromise, Legislation, Results
The Sun, March 4, 1923.

I would rather quit public life at seventy, and quit it forever, than to retain public life at a sacrifice to my own self-respect. I will not vote for any law which will make fair for me and foul for another. The blacklist is the most cruel form of oppression ever devised by man for the infliction of suffering upon his weaker fellows.

Joseph Gurney Cannon
Sacrifice, Men, Self
"Uncle Joe Cannon" by L. White Busby, (p. 278), 1927.

In legislation we all do a lot of swapping tobacco across the lines.

Joseph Gurney Cannon
Swapping, Lines, Legislation
"Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations" by Library of Congress, 1989.

A majority can do anything.

Joseph Gurney Cannon
Majority, Can Do

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