2016 election
Mark Twain: Whiskey, demijohns & Demagogues
Today’s M-TOPP: Mark Twain on Politics and Politicians
Congress, Whiskey, Demijohns and Demagogues
From: Mark Twain Notebook
“Whiskey is taken into the committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.”
From: Roughing It
That was a fine collection of sovereigns, that first Nevada legislature. They levied taxes to the amount of thirty or forty thousand dollars and ordered expenditures to the extent of about a million. Yet they had their little periodical explosions of economy like all other bodies of the kind. A member proposed to save three dollars a day to the nation by dispensing with the Chaplain. And yet that short-sighted man needed the Chaplain more than any other member, perhaps, for he generally sat with his feet on his desk, eating raw turnips, during the morning prayer.
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“Whiskey is taken into the committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.”
Mark Twain Notebook
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