Philander Chase Johnson Quotes

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Money makes the mare go and it is responsible for some serious run-a-way accidents.

Philander Chase Johnson
Whenever I see a man pretend to turn up his nose at the love of money, I take it for granted that he has suffered from unrequited affection.

Philander Chase Johnson
Money is sometimes held out as a reward, but more frequently it is employed as bait.

Philander Chase Johnson
Party harmony consists in having your own way and persuading other people to be resigned to fate.

Philander Chase Johnson
When I run across a tricky man I am tempted to despise him, and at the same time, I am tempted to hire him in my business.

Philander Chase Johnson
Some of my achievements, I think, deserve the gratitude of my fellow-country men. For instance, I never made a speech that it would take more than three minutes to read.

Philander Chase Johnson
Too many of us are trying to leave automobile tracks instead of footprints in the sands of time.

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The complaint of the treachery of friends usually indicates that a man hasn't been discriminating in his early relationships.

Philander Chase Johnson
Most advice is cheap, but any lawyer will tell you that, as in the case of everything, a first class brand costs money.

Philander Chase Johnson
Money is the source of much corruption. Early in my life it became my ambition to get enough of it to place me beyond the reach of constant temptation.

Philander Chase Johnson
A good memory is often a great help; but knowing just when to forget things sometimes counts for more.

Philander Chase Johnson
A few of my friends in high finance have managed to get the credit of being good business men, when they were merely victims of an aggravated case of kleptomania.

Philander Chase Johnson
When I see a man's wife listening to his campaign speech I always admire the self-control that keeps her from laughing.

Philander Chase Johnson
Politics is the art of turning influence into affluence.
And vice versa

Philander Chase Johnson
I have no respect for a man who will accept cold cash for his influence when information as to how the market will go is likely to prove so much more profitable.

Philander Chase Johnson
Money does not make the man, but it sometimes makes the candidate.

Philander Chase Johnson
Disappointment in politics is painful; disappointment in love is worse; but in either case you can be thankful it isn't a tooth-ache.

Philander Chase Johnson
I hear many speakers whose remarks are just stupid enough to make me sleepy and just loud enough to keep me awake.

Philander Chase Johnson
Never do anything that popular opinion and your own sense of right do not approve. Hire somebody else to do it.

Philander Chase Johnson
Some candidates are too honest to use money in an election. Others are too economical.

Philander Chase Johnson
It is a fortunate thing for society that the courts do not get the same chance at the Ten Commandments that they do at the Constitution of the United States.

Philander Chase Johnson
I am a great admirer of the power of the press. There is nothing like it for straightening out the grammar of a speech.

Philander Chase Johnson
It is a bad sign when a public man takes more interest in the rumors of Wall Street than in the echoes in the corridors of time.

Philander Chase Johnson
Occasionally you may be advanced because people like you. But political prosperity is mostly due to the fact that somebody is a afraid of you.

Philander Chase Johnson
Success is a variable quantity. With one man it consists in making a million dollars; with another, in keeping out of jail.

Philander Chase Johnson
The great orator is not necessarily a statesman. More frequently he is a misstatesman.

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Some statesmen seem lucky because they are wise; others seem wise because they are lucky.

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The ability to conceal ignorance sometimes avails more than the capacity for accumulating great wisdom.

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Every man who has attained to high position is a sincere believer of the survival of the fittest.

Philander Chase Johnson
A statesman usually affects an impressive demeanor, not because he believes he is a great man, but to avoid disappointing his constituents, who do think so.

Philander Chase Johnson