Joseph Gurney Cannon Quotes

• 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.

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• Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise.

  Joseph Gurney Cannon

  Compromise, Legislation, Results

  The Sun, March 4, 1923.

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• 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.

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• A majority can do anything.

  Joseph Gurney Cannon

  Majority, Can Do

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