There is hardly a member of Congress who can make up his mind to go home without having despatched at least one speech to his constituents; nor who will endure any interruption until he has introduced into his harangue whatever useful suggestions may be made touching the four-and-twenty States of which the Union is composed, and especially the district which he represents.


Book One, Chapter XXI. - Democracy in America, Volume II (1840)

Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

There is hardly a member of Congress who can make up his mind to go home without having despatched at least one speech to his constituents; nor who...

There is hardly a member of Congress who can make up his mind to go home without having despatched at least one speech to his constituents; nor who...

There is hardly a member of Congress who can make up his mind to go home without having despatched at least one speech to his constituents; nor who...

There is hardly a member of Congress who can make up his mind to go home without having despatched at least one speech to his constituents; nor who...