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In legislation we all do a lot of swapping tobacco across the lines.
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You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, and you can't change human nature from intelligent self-interest into pure idealism—not in this life; and if you could, what would be left for paradise?
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Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise.
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We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake…the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
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Born:
May 7, 1836
Died:
November 12, 1926
(aged 90)
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Joseph Gurney Cannon was a United States politician from Illinois and leader of the Republican Party.
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