William M. Tweed Quote

I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles; my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures.


On the political cartoons of Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, as quoted in "Article IV: An Episode in Municipal Government" by Charles F. Wingate in The North American Review (July 1875), p. 150


I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles; my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures.

I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles; my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures.

I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles; my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures.

I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles; my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures.